The articles collected in this issue of Forum of Poetics highlight Krall’s enduring presence in Holocaust literature, while also revealing the persistent and painful challenges of reception that continue to reflect deeper tensions within Polish culture. (...)
Trauma in Words, Trauma in the Body: Narrating Trauma in the Works of Hanna Krall
Katarzyna Prot-Klinger
A b s t r a k t
This article investigates trauma and its psychological consequences as they manifest both in narrative and in embodied experience. (...)
Experiencing history in Hanna Krall’s small narratives
Marian Kisiel
A b s t r a k t
What does the experience of history mean in the work of Hanna Krall? Perhaps it is the act of photographing “never”, or perhaps the search for an answer to what is inevitable. (...)
Tagi: 2 (40), Marian KisielHanna Krall: Childhood as an Unfinished Sentence
Joanna Tokarska-Bakir
A b s t r a k t
This article examines the misunderstandings surrounding the reception of autobiographical themes in Hanna Krall’s writing, particularly within mainstream—and even elitist—currents of Polish literary criticism. (...)
Tagi: 2 (40), Joanna Tokarska-Bakir