On Mother and Fatherland by Bożena Keff (English) Paperback Book

Description: On Mother and Fatherland by Bożena Keff, Alissa Valles, Boż, ena Keff, Benjamin Paloff` ... [T]he Polish version of Art Spiegelmans Maus ... a way out of the mausoleum of the Holocaust. A struggle played out in the arena of art. -Przemyslaw Czaplinski FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description [W]e may regard this as the Polish version of Art Spiegelmans Maus--in its form, an excellent and utterly unexpected version. Such a comparison is not about imitation, nor about formal similarity, but about something essential for both authors: the child-artists struggle with the historical experience represented by the parent. A struggle for ones own identity, for the right to ones own life, for a way out of the mausoleum of the Holocaust. A struggle played out in the arena of art.--Przemyslaw Czaplinski Review Keffs On Mother and Fatherland concerns the ideal and the concrete, the ideals of a mother and a daughter as well as their practical realization, the ideal of victimhood as well as that of survival, the hidden ruthlessness of those who had been victims and survived, and finally of a concept that transcends the usual state, that is, an ideal of fatherland that, as nineteenth-century nationalisms teach us, consists of land and blood. Keffs purpose is to create a work that, like Spiegelmans Maus, would break through formal boundaries, and that would place at its narrative center not a man or woman representing the generation that lived through the Holocaust, but their adult child.--Izabela Filipiak and Maria JanionIn Boena Keffs text, some fragments are written in verse, others seem closer to poetic prose, forms of dialogue appear; at times, as in antique tragedy, a chorus speaks up. The difficulty of assigning a definite genre arises primarily from the fact that Keff works in pastiche. There is plenty of deliberate borrowing and quotation from contemporary language, plenty of anti-Semitic raving, plenty of conscious literary anarchy. Some scenes and monologues feign rough street poetastery, but at the same time On Mother and Fatherland is as precise as an opera libretto, as a theatrical score now waiting to be staged.--Marek Radziwon, Gazeta Wyborcza (Polands highest-circulation daily)[W]e may regard this as the Polish version of Art Spiegelmans Maus--in its form, an excellent and utterly unexpected version. Such a comparison is not about imitation, nor about formal similarity, but about something essential for both authors: the child-artists struggle with the historical experience represented by the parent. A struggle for ones own identity, for the right to ones own life, for a way out of the mausoleum of the Holocaust. A struggle played out in the arena of art.--Przemyslaw Czaplinski Details ISBN1941196527 Pages 98 Language English ISBN-10 1941196527 ISBN-13 9781941196526 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2017 Imprint Madhat, Inc. Illustrations Illustrations, black and white Publication Date 2017-07-19 UK Release Date 2017-07-19 Author Benjamin Paloff` Publisher Madhat, Inc. Translator Benjamin Paloff` Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:118588952;

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