타데우슈 보롭스키의 홀로코스트 소설과 정체성의 문제 (Identity in Tadeusz Borowski’s Holocaust Stories)

서지정보

· 발행기관 : 한국외국어대학교(글로벌캠퍼스) 러시아연구소
· 수록지 정보 : 슬라브硏究 / 28권 / 1호 / 59 ~ 84페이지
· 저자명 : 정보라

초록

본 논문은 폴란드 작가이자 홀로코스트 생존자인 타데우슈 보롭스키(Tadeusz Borowski)의 전쟁 소설들을 중심으로 작품 속의 공간적 위치 변화와 이에 따른 화자의 정체성 변화를 추적한다. 작품 안에서 화자의 정체성은 극한 상황에서 생존하기 위해 유동적으로 변화한다. 이 과정에서 전쟁이 작품 속 화자에게 홀로코스트 생존자라는 역사적 정체성만을 남기고 개인적 정체성을 모두 파괴하는 과정을 볼 수 있다. 보롭스키는 허구적 영웅주의나 인본주의를 배제하고 이 과정을 건조하게 묘사하지만, 그의 작품 안에는 전쟁으로 파괴된 인간의 실존적인 절망이 솔직하고도 생생하게 드러난다.

영어초록

The concept of identity is mainly based on one’s relation to one’s urroundings and the perception of oneself. These are all important topics when reading Borowski’s stories. In his stories, the narrator is forced to change locations several times as a victim of war and a political prisoner. His physical rroundings as well as his emotional and psychological responses to the people and the environment around him are extremely important because his very survival depends on them. In Borowski’s stories one can see that the narrator’s identity evolves quite fluidly as he moves around from the streets of Warsaw to Pawiak prison, to Auschwitz and to different sub-camps of Auschwitz and to Dachau. When discussing personal identity and changing locations, one may say that Borowski’s wartime and Holocaust stories chronicle the destruction of a person in all aspects of existence: physical,psychological, moral and even spiritual. In Borowski’s stories, the narrator gradually changes from a young adult with hopes for a better future to a hardened concentration camp prisoner who does not hesitate to laugh at other people’s sufferings and death. The narrator’s survival after all the atrocities is itself a tragic one, because he survived not to be free but only to become a prisoner to the core of his heart and soul. And since these stories are also testimonies of one of the greatest tragedies of human history, one may also see it as a testimony of the inner devastation of a generation as well as that of an entire nation and its culture.

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