Return to the traumas: The literary depiction of war in the modern Ukranian and Polish novel

Abstract

V članku so analizirane posebnosti interpretacije sodobnega vojnega diskurza v ukrajinskem in poljskem romanu. Raziskovalni problem se osredotoča na romana Volodymyrja Lysa Solo dla Sołomiji in Ignacyja Karpowicza Sońka. Osnovni namen članka je analizirati premik paradigme v dojemanju druge svetovne vojne v sodobni literaturi s strani potomcev žrtev tragedije. Primerjalni način analize omogoča razkrivanje posebnosti literarnega premisleka o travmatičnih izkušnjah družbe s pomočjo individualne zgodovine v dveh kulturnih diskurzih.

In the article the peculiarities of the interpretation of modern military discourse in the Ukrainian and Polish novel were analysed. The researching of the problem is concentrated on the novels of Volodymyr Lys’ Solo for Solomia and of Ignacy Karpowicz’s Sonka. The main reason of the research is the changing of the paradigm in the perception of World War II by the posterities of the victims of tragedy. The comparative way of analysing gives the possibility to reveal the specifics of the literary rethinking of the society’s traumatic experience with the help of the personal history in two cultural discourses.