Mikołaj Grynberg

Poufne

Quel est l’héritage de la Shoah ? Comment être juif dans la Pologne d’aujourd’hui ? Au fil de 31 textes dépourvus de pathos et pourtant bouleversants, des amis et des anonymes se confient à l’auteur, racontent leur histoire familiale, un épisode de leur vie, un traumatisme : deux fillettes jouent dans la cave de leur maison, elles font semblant d’être des petites juives qui se cachent pendant la guerre (elles se déguisent avec leurs poupées, nous sommes en 2003) ; un petit garçon a peur d’Hitler alors qu’il est en colonie de vacances ; deux frères entrepreneurs demandent à un rabbin de certifier qu’ils ne sont pas juifs... "Je voudrais leur demander pardon, mais ils ne sont plus là" est un livre indispensable.

Je voudrais leur demander pardon, mais ils ne sont plus là

Wydawnictwo Czarne

Anka Grupińska

opowieści rodzinne

Oskarżam Auschwitz

Rejwach

Tomasz Kwaśniewski

Karolina Kijek

Marek Górlikowski

Zbigniew Borek (dziennikarz)

Jerzy Jurecki

Ewa Wanat

Aleksandra Pezda

Elżbieta Rutkowska (dziennikarka)

reportaże o "dobrej zmianie"

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An exquisitely original collection of darkly funny stories that explore the panorama of Jewish experience in contemporary Poland, from a world-class contemporary writer “These small, searing prose pieces are moving and unsettling at the same time. If the diagnosis they present is right, then we have a great problem in Poland.” —Olga Tokarczuk, Nobel Prize laureate and author of Flights Mikołaj Grynberg is a psychologist and photographer who has spent years collecting and publishing oral histories of Polish Jews. In his first work of fiction—a book that has been widely praised by critics and was shortlisted for Poland’s top literary prize—Grynberg recrafts those histories into little jewels, fictionalized short stories with the ring of truth. Both biting and knowing, I’d Like to Say Sorry, but There’s No One to Say Sorry To takes the form of first-person vignettes, through which Grynberg explores the daily lives and tensions within Poland between Jews and gentiles haunted by the Holocaust and its continuing presence. In “Unnecessary Trouble,” a grandmother discloses on her deathbed that she is Jewish; she does not want to die without her family knowing. What is passed on to the family is fear and the struggle of what to do with this information. In “Cacophony,” Jewish identity is explored through names, as Miron and his son Jurek demonstrate how heritage is both accepted and denied. In “My Five Jews,” a non-Jewish narrator remembers five interactions with her Jewish countrymen, and her own anti-Semitism, ruefully noting that perhaps she was wrong and should apologize, but no one is left to say “I’m sorry” to. Each of the thirty-one stories is a dazzling and haunting mini-monologue that highlights a different facet of modern Poland’s complex and difficult relationship with its Jewish past.

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I’d Like to Say Sorry, but There’s No One to Say Sorry To

Mikołaj Grynberg

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