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2021
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issue 11
287-296
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The main purpose of the article is the comparison of the “professional” analysis of Austerlitz by W.G Sebald with the reading reactions of a group of thirteen and fourteen-year-old students. The paper was inspired by a project which the author carried out at the Szalom Alejchem Primary School in Wrocław, which functioned as a Jewish national minority school. The narration of Austerlitz does not fit into the traditional, conventional novel structure; it reflects upon the work of memory itself, unsettled, with gaps and chronology disorders. Analysis undertook in volume Practical Past by Hayden White, an eminent theorist of the history and historiography, presents Austerlitz as a a peculiar example of the postmodern version of the historical novel; White specifies certain elements of the construction which determine the post-modernist character. Students, despite their limited knowledge regarding the theory of literature, pointed out similar elements, such as the lack of a tangible plot or rapid action, the narrator’s function, “eternal wanderer” as a metaphor of human fate or the recurrence of certain motifs and patterns. Those motifs and patterns – which during the joint work on Austerlitz were initially called “figures of memory” – have been defined in the same way as Pierre Nora’s lieux de mémoire. Work on the analysis of Austerlitz with teenagers proves that decoding the metaphorical layer of the novel often depends on the most primordial experiences. Young people are able to interpret “adult literature” and find themselves as full-fledged readers.
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The article is based on empirical research related to reading, experience and emotions, conducted in primary schools for several years. The story of Joanna Fabicka Rutka (2016) has become the exemplification for the mentioned empirical research. A polysensory, but also poetic in the illustration of the world, fairytale literary narrative about the destruction and the recovery of a lost childhood, kept in the poetics of magical realism. The book deals with the topics of dialogue between genders, friendship, the power of imagination, memory, understanding, naming and tame emotions, loneliness and fear of death. The book also shows the problem of settling with a difficult past (here: war trauma), the responsibility of adults and growing up to dreams. Visualization of the effects and affect of narrative fragments and metaphorisation of images reinforced by real experience, as noted in the story, may affect the reader’s emotional involvement and influence the construction of new meanings and meanings of the work, which all translates into support of understanding, shaping the imagination and ethical formulation of reflection on the world.
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Artykuł opiera się na badaniach empirycznych związanych z czytaniem, doświadczeniem i emocjami, prowadzonych w szkołach podstawowych od kilku lat. Egzemplifikacją dla badań empirycznych stała się, w tym przypadku, polisensoryczna, ale i poetycka ze względu na obrazowanie świata – baśniowa narracja literacka o zagładzie, o odzyskiwaniu straconego dzieciństwa, utrzymana w poetyce realizmu magicznego opowieść Joanny Fabickiej Rutka (2016). Książka porusza tematy dialogu pokoleń, przyjaźni, siły wyobraźni, pamięci, rozumienia, nazwania i oswojenia emocji, samotności i lęku przed śmiercią, a także ukazuje problem rozliczenia z trudną przeszłością (tu: wojenną traumą), odpowiedzialności dorosłych oraz dorastania do marzeń. Wizualizacja efektów i afektów fragmentów narracji oraz metaforyzacja obrazów wzmacnianych doświadczeniem rzeczywistym – jak zauważono – może wpływać na emocjonalne zaangażowanie czytelnika oraz wywierać wpływ na konstruowanie przez niego nowych znaczeń i sensów utworu, co przekłada się w tym przypadku na wspomaganie rozumienia, kształtowanie wyobraźni i formułowanie etycznej refleksji nad światem.
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