The Return of the Repressed Self: Michał Głowiński's Autobiographical Wartime Writing

Abstract

In this article, I examine Michal Glowinski’s late-postwar autobiographical writings, arguing that the author’s account of his wartime experience is a manifestation of the return of the repressed and self-censored self. I also examine the relationship between imaginative autobiographical Holocaust literature and Holocaust testimony produced by child survivors, trying to identify the point at which wartime memory surfaces among child survivors and how such memory unfolds. Glowinski’s autobiographical works, in particular The Black Seasons , exhibit features of Holocaust testimonial literature written by child survivors in multiple languages.