Open AccessEXISTENTIAL MOTIFS IN SLOVAK LITERATURE WITH THE ISSUE OF THE SHOAH
Author(s) -
Monika Adamická,
Fakulta Stredoeurópskych
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
ad alta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2464-6733
pISSN - 1804-7890
DOI - 10.33543/1001117
Subject(s) - the holocaust , slovak , existentialism , memoir , motif (music) , literature , dignity , interpretation (philosophy) , feeling , art , history , psychoanalysis , aesthetics , philosophy , law , political science , psychology , epistemology , theology , linguistics , czech
The study deals with existential motifs in selected fiction and memoir works of Slovak literature, which thematically focus on World War II. and the Holocaust of the Slovak Jewish minority. As we considered the fact that many works of Slovak provenance with this issue were published (especially after 1989), we focused only on a selection of those works, which contains fiction and non-fiction literature and memoir works written by surviving Jews, in which they gave valuable testimony about the Holocaust and anti-Semitism of the war-torn Slovak state and post-war society. Based on the interpretation and analysis of Shoah-themed works, we detect recurring existential motifs: degradation of human dignity, feelings of guilt for one's own survival, Auschwitz traumas, and the motif of The Lost Generation.