Open AccessHouse of Memories and Oblivion by Filip David: Literature, Memory and Death
Author(s) -
Časlav V. Nikolić
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
poznańskie studia slawistyczne
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2450-2731
pISSN - 2084-3011
DOI - 10.14746/pss.2017.12.16
Subject(s) - the holocaust , civilization , narrative , history , serbian , identity (music) , world war ii , literature , judaism , art history , aesthetics , art , philosophy , theology , archaeology , linguistics
The aim of this paper, is to determine the status of the Holocaust themes in contemporary Serbian literature. Philip David’s novel House of memories and oblivion contains resonances of the civilization after World War II considering the fate of Jewish people in this war. The attempt to highlight the work and the way of Western civilization to define itself in respect of the Holocaust was made. David’s novel is an example of a literary text which tests the boundaries of narrative regarding life of those who survived the Holocaust and tryed to find their identity. Literary discourse also allows to search for the truth about the crime in the gaps of the symbolic order of our world.