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- ItemThe Haze of the Shoah. Exilic Condition in the Work of Anna Langfus (1920-1966)(John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2023-06) Grenaudier-Klijn F; Sauerberg, LO; Benne, C; Svend, EL; Kluge, S; Rosendahl Thomsen, MWhen Holocaust survivor Anna Langfus (1920–1966) left Poland for France in 1946, she broke all ties with her home country. French became her language of choice for the three novels she published between 1960 and 1965, and she never used Polish at home nor taught it to her only daughter. Yet, in a contribution to a volume on Chopin published a few months before her death, she had the famous composer cry out: ‘I do not want to die in this country. […] No, not here. But at home, in my home, the only home I ever owned, my parents' home. A home I shall never see again; a country I have abandoned.’ Drawing on the work of Julia Kristeva (abjection) and Dominick LaCapra (empathic unsettlement) I explore representations of exile in Langfus's fiction in three respects: the incommunicability of the Shoah and the ensuing exilic condition of the Holocaust survivor (exile from others); the fragmentation/dislocation of the narrator's body as expression of the survivor's existential anguish (exile from self); the fleeting solace offered by creative fiction and the connection established with readers (suspension of exile). Throughout this discussion, I will be guided by the motif of the fog, which features strongly in Langfus's Chopin text.
- ItemThe post-shoah fiction of anna Langfus (1920–1966): reader’s positioning and empathic unsettlement(University of Silesia Press, 2021-06) Grenaudier-Klijn FPolish-born, writing-in-French novelist Anna Langfus (1920-1966) has left us a body of work with high testimonial, literary, epistemological and ethical value. Her three novels, imaginative works largely drawing from her own personal and direct experience of loss, estrangement and alienation, revolve around protagonists exiled from themselves and others. Chiefly concerned with the question of post-Holocaust identity, these narratives foreground the voice and experience of the survivor. Simultaneously, they seek an ethical communication with readers, who, for the most part, have not been subjected to nor left traumatized by the radical experience Langfus’ characters endured. Drawing on Dominick LaCapra’s notion of “empathic unsettlement”, and illustrating the discussion with quotes taken from Langfus’ thoughts on fiction-writing, this article discusses some of the narratorial choices she made – characterisation; rejection of pathos; gaps, silences and ellipses – in order to channel her ethical call to the reader.
- ItemWho are the Gilets jaunes?(The Big Q, 2018-12-14) Grenaudier-Klijn F