Zagłada jako klisza fabularna : o narracji Mariana Pankowskiego "Była Żydówka, nie ma Żydówki"

Abstract

In the article I describe a brief history of presence and reception of the issue of Holocaust in Polish prose. If I broaden the last period of it (embracing 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century), I only do it in order to show a radical shift towards “rhetorizing” the Shoah. I therefore treat Pankowski’s narration (published in 2008) as a final effect of rendering the phenomenon of Holocaust in less and less “documental” way in literature, which has lead to making the phenomenon its own opposite, that is – most of all, a literary text. After analyzing the rhetoric of There Was a Jewish Girl, There Is No Jewish Girl, I present the more important phenomenon, which is the author of Rudolf’s disabling of anti-Semitic stereotypes with the great load of farce. As a kind of critical reconnaissance, the article anticipates serious changes in the linguistic image of the Shoah in the Polish prose of last years.