Czech Republic
Hanna Marciniak
Wielogłos, Issue 1 (2) 2007, 2007, pp. 63-81
The article is devoted to Różewicz’s poetic imagination, and above all to the images associated with the motif of the monument. I also regard the motif of the cathedral and the stone as variants of this central topos. The above motifs serve as interpretative trails in the analysis of the essay What Has Remained of the Unwritten Book About Norwid (as well as of the poem An Evening in Norwid’s Honor) which constitutes its fundamental element. I am especially interested in the commemorative dimension of the „monumental” topics and its connection with Różewicz’s concept of autobiographical poetry.
Hanna Marciniak
Wielogłos, Issue 1 (15) 2013: Tadeusz Różewicz, 2013, pp. 47-61
https://doi.org/10.4467/2084395XWI.13.004.1062
The visual space of postmemory. The poetics of secondary testimony in Tadeusz Różewicz’s nożyk profesora (professor’s little knife)
This essay discusses the problem of postmemory and secondary testimony, including their visual and textual manifestations in Tadeusz Różewicz’s late poem nożyk profesora (2001). The essay deals with theoretical background of the concept of postmemory (according to Marianne Hirsch and Dori Laub) in its psychoanalytical and aesthetical aspects. It focuses on the experimental style and composition of Różewicz’s poem which combines visual (3 photographs) and textual (or, more precise, intertextual) means of expression to articulate a multilayered and polyphonic secondary Holocaust testimony.