FILM ADAPTATION OF A MODERNIST NOVEL AND THE CULTURE OF REMEMBRANCE. THE REINVENTION OF GOMBROWICZ’S CHARACTER IN JAN JAKUB KOLSKI’S “PORNOGRAFIA”

The study of Witold Gombrowicz’s „Pornografia” (1960) film adaptation made by Jan Jakub Kolski (2003), drawn in the article, integrates two problems into one critical discourse on modern cinema. Firstly, it reveals the chosen adaptation method of modernist narration, which is, due to its impermeability and the complicated poetical game, considered a matter of particular difficulty for a director. Secondly, it examines this method in the context of the culture of remembrance. The analysis leans upon the authoritative adaptation studies, Gombrowicz’s literature critical interpretations, and narrowly-specialized memory, PTSD, and the Holocaust survival syndrome studies. The article represents two drastically different ways of speaking about the Catastrophe of European Jews and argues that the distinction between the two is determined not only by the artistical identity of each author but also by the state of a culture of remembrance at the moment of the first appearance of the work: in the middle of the XX (in case of the novel) and the beginning of the XXI (in case of the film adaptation) centuries.