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ABSTRACT The article presents the analysis and interpretation of Witold Gombrowicz’s short story: Memoirs of Stefan Czarniecki from the volume Pamiętnik z okresu dojrzewania [Memoirs from Time of Immaturity] 1933 (included after the Second World War in the volume Bakakaj [English translation: Bacacay]). The author interprets the story as narrative about life with the stigma that results from the social effects of anti-Semitism. At the same time however, he shows that the conceptualizations of “race” are often very clearly combined with the considerations about masculinity and effeminacy of the main hero. The author shows - referring to the historical works and theoretical and literary criticism (Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick) that “effiminacy” combines narratives about Jewishness and male homosexuality in a complex way, which at the same time constitutes the aporia of Gombrowicz’s text and queer construction of identity of the main hero.
摘要本文对维托尔德·冈布罗维奇的短篇小说《斯特凡·恰尔涅茨基的回忆录》进行分析和解读，该短篇小说摘自1933年Pamiętnik z okresu dojrzewania(第二次世界大战后收录于《Bakakaj》(Bacacay)卷)。作者将这个故事解释为对因反犹太主义的社会影响而蒙受耻辱的生活的叙述。但同时，他也表明，“种族”的概念往往非常清楚地与对男主角的阳刚之气和阴柔之气的考虑相结合。作者通过对历史著作和理论文学批评(Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick)的分析表明，“effinacy”以一种复杂的方式将关于犹太人和男同性恋的叙事结合在一起，同时构成了冈布罗维奇文本的焦虑和主人公身份的酷儿建构。
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Central Europe publishes original research articles on the history, languages, literature, political culture, music, arts and society of those lands once part of the Habsburg Monarchy and Poland-Lithuania from the Middle Ages to the present. It also publishes discussion papers, marginalia, book, archive, exhibition, music and film reviews. Central Europe has been established as a refereed journal to foster the worldwide study of the area and to provide a forum for the academic discussion of Central European life and institutions. From time to time an issue will be devoted to a particular theme, based on a selection of papers presented at an international conference or seminar series.
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