| Abstract | The article analyses recent forms of artistic representations of the Holocaust in Poland in the novels: Fabryka muchołapek by Andrzej Bart (2008) and Pensjonat by Piotr Paziński (2009). Debates in Poland in the 1990s and 2000s on the Polish role in the Holocaust have readdressed many unresolved issues in the Polish memory of the Shoah, sparking renewed interest and the need for complex and multi-perspective forms of artistic representations. Writers of the second and third generation confront the challenge with different degrees of emotional engagement and diverse forms of tension between the author’s creative investment and the historical truth. The article examines the ways in which Bart and Paziński actualize the memory of the Shoah by engaging in a literary dialogue between past and present.
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