BARBARA TOPORSKA'S 'SISTERS' - A STORY OF TWO LIVES

• Authors: Buryla S.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This article deals with the main themes of 'Sisters' by Barbara Toporska (1913-1985), a forgotten authoress who lived in the shadow of her famous husband, Józef Mackiewicz. Published abroad in 1966, the novel was able to raise issues that were taboo in post-war Poland, ie. the analogies between the communist and the Nazi systems or the problem of anti-Semitism among activists of the left. This analysis is also concerned with such aspects of Toporska's novel as a woman's view of the Nazi occupation, the complex question of Polish-Jewish identities, and the difference between the fate of Poles and Jews during the war.

Keywords

EN

MACKIEWICZ JÓZEF; POLISH LITERATURE (20TH C.); POLISH-JEWISH RELATIONS; TOPORSKA BARBARA; ÉMIGRÉ WRITERS

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Ruch Literacki
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 49
• Issue: 1(286)
• Pages: 85-100
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Buryla S.

• S. Buryla, Uniwersytet Warminsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie, ul. Oczapowskiego 2, 10-719 Olsztyn, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08PLAAAA04278328