A darkened room

• Authors: Mitzner P.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This essay attempts at an analysis of Janusz Korczak's Diary, written in the Warsaw ghetto in 1942. These records form an intimate diary and a consciously constructed literary piece, which was conceived as a polemic with 'Also sprach Zarathustra' by Friedrich Nietzsche. At all, it is a piece underspecified as to genre, perhaps intentionally so. Korczak applied in it several literary stratagems he had used before. Given this important observation, the reader can take a different look at certain controversial fragments of this Diary: the author's views on war and death, and, his apparently 'anti-Semitic' opinions. Besides, the Korczak account is confronted with other ghetto documents concerning its author, which were found at a later date.

Keywords

EN

HOLOCAUST TESTIMONY; KORCZAK JANUSZ - DIARY; NIETZSCHE FRIEDRICH

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
• Year: 2007
• Issue: 5(107)
• Pages: 149-164
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Mitzner P.

• P. Mitzner, Uniwersytet Kardynala Stefana Wyszynskiego w Warszawie, ul. Dewajtis 5, 01-815 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08PLAAAA03607314