Kategoria niesamowitości w prozie Henryka Schoenkera

Abstract

The article discusses the Freudian concept of the uncanny (das Unheimliche) in the context of the Holocaust, specifically in Henryk Schönker’s prose. The article also deals with the forgotten history of the German offices for Jewish emigration, which were set up to organize Jewish deportations. The author of the novel Dotknięcie anioła (‘The Touch of an Angel’) tells the story of the Second World War using devices such as paradox, a sense of wonder, the uncanny, which are unusual in this context. They result from the juxtaposition of the perspective of a young boy with that of the mature man returning in memory to traumatic experiences.