Open AccessA Solitary Man in the Space of Genocide
Author(s) -
Paweł Tomczok
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
narracje o zagładzie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2451-2133
pISSN - 2450-4424
DOI - 10.31261/noz.2020.06.11
Subject(s) - genocide , narrative , metaphysics , space (punctuation) , literature , epistemology , sociology , history , philosophy , linguistics , art , theology
In this essay, I discuss a particular narrative structure manifest in contemporary genocide narratives, a structure based on a distinctive presence of a first-person – usually male – narrator, who describes his experiences and reflections born in the course of his peregrinations to sites of mass extermination. Rooting my research in geocriticism, I explore ties between spaceand memory, which allows me to distinguish several levels of analyzed texts, tending towards metaphysical generalizations of nihilistic or patriotic nature. I apply the said analytical categories to my study of selected passages of Dawid Szkoła’s and Przemysław Dakowicz’s respective essays.