Open Access„Dezynfekcja”. Literatura polska wobec eksterminacji osób psychicznie chorych
Author(s) -
Arkadiusz Morawiec
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
przestrzenie teorii
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 2450-5765
pISSN - 1644-6763
DOI - 10.14746/pt.2017.27.18
Subject(s) - nazism , insignificance , theme (computing) , mentally ill , ideology , poetry , population , literature , mount , history , philosophy , law , art , political science , sociology , psychology , demography , social psychology , psychiatry , mental illness , politics , mental health , computer science , operating system
The article concerns the theme of extermination of the mentally ill and handicapped in Polish literature. It outlines the basic facts regarding this crime perpetrated by the Nazis and indicates how Polish literature reacted to it. There are few works which deal with this crime. Writers (and historians) probably considered the extermination of the mentally ill to be a fact of insignificance compared to other Nazi crimes, or knew little about it. Thus Polish literature treats it incidentally, by entering it in another, more extensive or “more important” issue (the extermination of the Jews, the extermination of the Polish population), or treats it as an occasion to take up “more fundamental” (ideological) problems. The article analyzes famous works, Stanisław Lem’s novel Hospital of the Transfiguration and Andrzej Bursa’s poem The liquidation of the mentally ill in Kobierzyn by the Germans, and less known texts: Piotr Matywiecki’s poem *** [Dragged into the sun….] and Anna Dziewit-Meller’s novel Mount Taygetus.