Autobiografia Literatura Kultura Media


ISSN: 2353-8694     eISSN: 2719-4361    OAI    DOI: 10.18276/au.2024.2.23-10
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Issue archive / nr 2 (23) 2024
„Mamo, nie jesteśmy nędznikami z Belsen! Ale mogliśmy być i bylibyśmy…” Philipa Rotha kłopot z Ocaleniem
(“We are not wretched of Belsen, mother! We were not victims of that crime…”. Philip Roth’s Trouble with Survival)

Authors: Piotr Weiser ORCID
Uniwersytet kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego; Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma
Editorial Board: Paulina Iwan
Keywords: Philip Roth Jews American Jews Holocaust Rescue from the Holocaust
Whole issue publication date:2024
Page range:15 (137-151)
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Abstract

This essay is an attempt to understand the problem of surviving the Holocaust in Philip Roth's prose, starting from his Conversion (1958) to Indignation (2008). Survival is a topic that returns regularly in Roth's novels and in various contexts (American, European, Israeli), and is also a diffuse topic. The author of the article proposes a detailed analysis of Roth's plots from the titular angle, compares his statements about the Holocaust and survival, confronts them and interprets them, remaining, so to speak, inside the text.
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