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2012 | 20 | 175-185

Article title

Jurek Beckers (auto)biografisches Schreiben zwischen Erinnerung und Verdrängung: „Jakob der Lügner“ und „Der Boxer“

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(Auto)biographical writing of Jurek Becker between memory and psychological repression: “Jacob the Liar” and “The Boxer”

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The paper is an attempt to present the ambivalent attitude of Jurek Becker, an East-German writer born in Lodz before World War II, towards his own life and ambiguous Jewish identity. The author examines two novels by Becker: “Jacob the Liar” and “The Boxer” which in the fictional literature space present the reality of Holocaust, which is an experience familiar to Jurek Becker. The focal aspect here is the correlation between the highly traumatic personal experiences of the writer in question and their literary transposition in the afore mentioned novels. What is characteristic for the writer is the unstraightforward nature of this correlation, in which the world created in the literary work is not a direct faithful depiction of the experienced world. In both novels Jurek Becker – similarly to his non-literary statements – avoids making any conclusive statements, also regarding his own Jewish identity, thus making his writing activity similar to playing a game with himself and the reader. To what extent this game is an element of a conscious strategy and to what extent it is merely a pose adopted by the writer remains an open question.

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Issue

20

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175-185

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Contributors

  • Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny w Krakowie

References

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