The author discusses the growing popularity of picture-books and gives a critical overview of the problems of the definition of the genre. He concentrates on the two recent works of Iwona Chmielewska which address the issues of the Holocaust, representing different approaches to the genre, experimenting with the book as a material and visual object...
L’article se propose d’analyser la façon dont Edgar Hilsenrath revisite le conte dans son roman Le Nazi et le Barbier, paru en traduction anglaise en 1971 à New York, et dont le manuscrit original ne trouvera un éditeur en Allemagne qu’en 1977. On s’attachera plus particulièrement au « retournement parodique » et à l’inversion des figures, motifs e...
Published in Studia Anglica Posnaniensia
In her I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors published in Canada in 2006, Bernice Eistenstein undertakes an attempt to cope with the inherited memories of the Holocaust. As a child of the Holocaust survivors, she tries to deal with the trauma her parents kept experiencing years after WWII had finished. Eisenstein became infected with the suffering a...
