%0 Journal Article
%T Inhabitants of the Non-Sites of Memory: a guardian mole (by Czesław Miłosz) and crawling death (by Zdzisław Beksiński)
%A Węgrzyn, Klaudia
%J The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series
%V First View
%R 10.4467/24506249PJ.24.005.20480
%N 19 (1/2024)

%K non-sites of memory, postwar, guardian mole, crawling death, Zdzisław Beksiński, Czesław Miłosz
%@ 2450-2561
%D 2024
%U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/pjacns/artykul/inhabitants-of-the-non-sites-of-memory-a-guardian-mole-by-czeslaw-milosz-and-crawling-death-by-zdzislaw-beksinski
%X The aim of this study is to take a new look at artistic representations of the Non-Sites of Memory, proposing a comparative analysis of two creatures – presented as new survivors or old arrivals on the post-war/post-apocalyptic scene. A guardian mole (poem Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto by Czesław Miłosz, 1944) and Crawling Death (Without title, a painting by Zdzisław Beksiński, 1975) bring to life yet-human and sub-human figures and represent two ideas of being a witness/bystander, while also constituting a general commentary on the various ways that memory and remembrance work in the personal life of the artist.