Published: 2023-08-051

Memory of the Holocaust in Henryk Grynberg’s volume of poetry "Dowód osobisty" [Personal ID]

Roman Bobryk
Prace Literaturoznawcze
Section: Articles
https://doi.org/10.31648/pl.9080

Abstract

Virtually all of Henryk Grynberg’s work is devoted to the subject of the Holocaust. In the 2006 volume entitled Dowód osobisty, individual poems require not only knowledge of the Shoah but also of the author’s biography and other work. In many, the lyrical subject is endowed with
the poet’s own characteristics. Another modality of presenting the world - one seldom employed
in poetry - is through the utterance of a collective subject (the lyrical “us”, which may be identified with the Jewish nation), in which the focus shift from the personal, individual experience to a more general and objective scope. Also, numerous poems feature indirect allusions to Grynberg’s earlier work. Hence, their interpretation is contingent on the reader’s literary experience.

Keywords:

Henryk Grynberg, Holocaust, memory, post-Holocaust poetry, the Second World War

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Bobryk, R. (2023). Memory of the Holocaust in Henryk Grynberg’s volume of poetry "Dowód osobisty" [Personal ID] . Prace Literaturoznawcze, (11), 95–107. https://doi.org/10.31648/pl.9080

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