ТВОРЧІСТЬ ВЛАДИСЛАВА ШЛЕНГЕЛЯ У КОНТЕКСТІ НЕПРОФЕСІЙНИХ ПОЕТІВ ВАРШАВСЬКОГО ГЕТТО

Abstract

The article analyzes the works of Władysław Szlengel and non-professional poets of the Warsaw ghetto. Władysław Szlengel is the most popular author of the Warsaw ghetto who wrote his works in Polish. He is the author of a volume of poems Co czytałem umarłym. Non-professional poets are those Jewish authors who wrote one or more poems dedicated to the Holocaust. The author of the article is focused on the poetics of texts wrote by Szlengel and other Polish-Jewish poets. A comparative analysis of the works of Szlengel and non-professional poets is conducted to show different models of the functioning of the same topos and motives of the Holocaust in texts of a professional poet and in the work of unknown authors. The article also deals with the most important motifs of the Warsaw ghetto literature, such as a wall, a window to the Aryan side, death, a child, etc. The presence of these motifs in both professional and amateur works indicates the development of a similar language of expression in texts written by Jews imprisoned in the ghetto during World War II. However, these motifs are used in the works of various authors in more or less interesting ways. The artistic quality of the text is determined by the originality of the development of Holocaust motifs. The author of the article pays special attention to the analysis of the motif of a window and a wall, which define the specificity of the ghetto space in the lyrics of the ghetto. The window and wall also have a symbolic function as a metaphor for enslavement and violence.