Biblioteka Babel Zagłady. O Historii miłości Nicole Krauss

• Authors: Marta Tomczok

Title variants

EN

Library of Babel of the Holocaust. "On History of Love" by Nicole Krauss

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The concept of the Holocaust Babel Library discussed in my article was based on articles and lectures of John Barth, Anna Burzyńska, Umberto Eco and Raymond Federman. I show how this notion has crystallised from the popular postmodernism label that was named the Tower of Babel and had its beginning in 2000s. I follow a 2005 novel − History of Love by American writer Nicole Krauss (Polish, poorly translated, edition was published in 2006) rated among the so-called third generation. I show both the historical aspect of this novel (pogroms of Jews in  Słonim in 1941) as well as its ideological facet. The Holocaust Babel Library in Krauss’ prose is a sign of a funeral ritual consisting in the reconstruction of history from innumerable quotations, allusions and references to books.

Keywords

PL

Babel; Zagłada; Nicole Krauss; intertekstualność

EN

Babel; Holocaust; Nicole Krauss; intertextuality

• Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo
• Year: 2019
• Issue: 9(12) cz.2
• Pages: 143-154

Dates

published

2019-07-04

Contributors

author

Marta Tomczok

• Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach

Identifiers

DOI

10.32798/pflit.126