Niech się pan nie wyteatrza! Auschwitz w twórczości Mariana Pankowskiego

Stop being so dramatic! Auschwitz in the works of Marian Pankowski

The author analyses and interprets selected prose and dramatic works of Marian Pankowski in reference to areas of contemporary humanities: Holocaust studies, trauma studies, gender studies, memory studies and animal studies. She draws attention to Pankowski’s concentration camp experience. The author addresses themes most often explored in Pankowski’s works: the Holocaust, the writer’s attitude toward the body and corporeality, his obscene aesthetics and his Gombrowicz-like distance toward the national myths.

Keywords: Pankowski, Holocaust, extermination, Auschwitz, Jews, Holocaust studies, gender studies.