The tragedy of warsaw ghetto in Zookepper’s Wife by D. Akkerman: book and the movie

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29051/el.v7iesp.8.16353

Keywords:

Nonfiction, Mass literature, Naturalist stories, Animal imagery, Synthesis of fact and fiction, Screen version, Holocaust

Abstract

The object of this research is the synthesis of two complete different phenomena: Holocaust tragedy and “naturalist stories”. Distinctive feature of works about the Holocaust, both cinema, and literary, is the indispensable documentary basis. The chosen subject itself causes documentalism. It is possible to track D. Ackerman's way to writing of the novel Zookepper’s Wife from professional interest in preservation of animals in the conditions of occupation to the appeal to history of the Holocaust, resistance and heroism. The author tries to represent events in Warsaw through a prism of specifics of fauna, keeping scientific view of the naturalist on the events nature. Constant comparison of people and animals results in a certain blurring of borders between these two worlds. The writer constantly puts the readers in a situation of the moral choice.

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Author Biographies

Ekaterina Zueva, Kazan Federal University

PhD, senior lecturer, Russian and World Literature Department, Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication

Arina Shevchenko, Kazan Federal University

Assistant professor, Russian and World Literature Department, Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication

Ilya Altman, Russian State University for the Humanities

PhD, professor, Department of Modern Russian History

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Published

30/12/2021

How to Cite

ZUEVA, E.; SHEVCHENKO, A.; ALTMAN, I. The tragedy of warsaw ghetto in Zookepper’s Wife by D. Akkerman: book and the movie. Revista EntreLinguas, Araraquara, v. 7, n. esp.8, 2021. DOI: 10.29051/el.v7iesp.8.16353. Disponível em: https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/entrelinguas/article/view/16353. Acesso em: 22 dec. 2024.