Hospital of the Transfiguration - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hospital of the Transfiguration write by Stanislaw Lem. This book was released on 2020-02-18. Hospital of the Transfiguration available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An early realist novel by Stanisław Lem, taking place in a Polish psychiatric hospital during World War II. Taking place within the confines of a psychiatric hospital, Stanisław Lem's The Hospital of the Transfiguration tells the story of a young doctor working in a Polish asylum during World War II. At first the asylum seems like a bucolic refuge, but a series of sinister encounters and incidents reveal an underlying brutality. The doctor begins to seek relief in the strange conversation of the poet Sekulowski, who is posing as a patient in a bid for safety from the occupying German forces. Meanwhile, Resistance fighters stockpile weapons in the surrounding woods. A very early work by Lem, The Hospital of the Transfiguration is partly autobiographical, drawing on the author's experiences as a medical student. Written in 1948, it was suppressed by Polish censors and not published until 1955. The censorship of this realist novel is partly what led Lem to focus on science fiction and nonfiction for the rest of his career.
Hospital of the Transfiguration
Hospital of the Transfiguration - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hospital of the Transfiguration write by Stanisław Lem. This book was released on 1989-01-01. Hospital of the Transfiguration available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Hospital of the transfiguration
Hospital of the transfiguration - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hospital of the transfiguration write by Stanislaw Lem. This book was released on 2000. Hospital of the transfiguration available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Holocaust and the Stars
Holocaust and the Stars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Holocaust and the Stars write by Agnieszka Gajewska. This book was released on 2021-11-29. Holocaust and the Stars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a groundbreaking study of one of the greatest science fiction writers, the Polish master Stanisław Lem. It offers a new direction in research on his oeuvre and corrects several errors commonly appearing in his biographies. The author painstakingly recreates the context of Lem’s early life and his traumatic experiences during the Second World War due to his Jewish background, and then traces these through original and brilliant readings of his fiction and non-fiction. She considers language, worldbuilding, themes, motifs and characterization as well as many buried allusions to the Holocaust in Lem’s published and archival work, and uses these fragments to capture a different side of Lem than previously known. The book discusses various issues concerning the writer’s life, such as his upbringing in a Jewish, Zionist-minded family, the extensive relations between the Lem family and the elite of Lviv at that time, details of the Lem family killed during the German occupation and attempts to reconstruct what happened to Lem’s parents and to the writer himself after escaping the ghetto. Part of the Studies in Global Genre Fiction series, this English translation of the Polish original, which has already been considered a milestone in Lem studies, offers a fresh perspective on the writer and his work. It will be an important intervention for scholars and researchers of Jewish studies, Holocaust literature, science fiction studies, English literature, world war studies, minority studies, popular culture, history and cultural studies.
Polish Literature and Genocide
Polish Literature and Genocide - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Polish Literature and Genocide write by Arkadiusz Morawiec. This book was released on 2021-12-30. Polish Literature and Genocide available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Polish Literature and Genocide presents the attitude of Polish literature to the 20th-century acts of genocide. This volume examines the literary representations of the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, and the massacre in Srebrenica in a rich, detailed, and comprehensive way, expanding the existing research and, in some cases, challenging the former sometimes ossified ideas. Polish literature not only reflects the obvious extermination of Jews and Poles, but also records what had been largely overlooked: the extermination of disabled and mentally ill people, the Roma and Sinti, and the Soviet prisoners of war by the Nazis. This volume includes analysis of the literary works of Władysław Szlengel, the most prominent Polish-language poet in the Warsaw ghetto; the peculiar reception of Julian Tuwim’s famous poem for children "Locomotive;" the memoir of Leon Weliczker, a prisoner of the Janowska concentration camp in Lvov and a member of the ‘death brigade’ (Sonderkommando); the origins of Medallions by Zofia Nałkowska, who ‘processed’ historical documents into literature and contributed to the making of professor Rudolf Spanner’s ‘dark legend,’ and the textual origins of Tadeusz Różewicz’s ‘poetry after Auschwitz.’ Furthermore, this volume addresses issues related to the genesis and function of ‘genocide literature’ – aesthetic, cognitive, ideological, and social. This volume will be a crucial resource for academics interested in genocide and Holocaust literary studies.
