Sebald / Weliczker. Próba ujęcia fotografii historycznej

• Authors: Bojarska Katarzyna

Title variants

EN

Sebald / Weliczker. An Attempted Take at Historical Photography

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The author compared two seemingly incommensurate works: a diary by Leon Weliczker – The Death Brigade, and three examples of prose by W. G. Sebald – The Emigrants, Austerlitz and The Rings of Saturn. In this way, she pursued reflections about the place of photography in narrations concerning the traumatic past and proposed a hypothesis on the possible role played by historical photography vis-à-vis the modern or post-modern interpretation of history. K. Bojarska is interested not in that, which can be seen in the analysed photographs (or rather the uses of photography) but with that to which they refer, the role, which they play in the process of imagining and associating, as well as in the creation of history, and not its recreation.

Keywords

PL

W.G. Sebald; Weliczker; Historia; Fotografia; Pamięć; Literatura

EN

W.G. Sebald; Weliczker; photography; Holocaust

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Sztuki PAN
• Journal: Konteksty - Polska Sztuka Ludowa
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 68
• Issue: 3-4(306-307)
• Pages: 145-155

Contributors

author

Bojarska Katarzyna

• IBL PAN