@ARTICLE{Katsman_Roman_A_2018, author={Katsman, Roman}, volume={vol. LXVII}, number={No 4}, pages={611-629}, journal={Slavia Orientalis}, howpublished={online}, year={2018}, publisher={Komitet Słowianoznawstwa PAN}, abstract={Julius Margolin (1900–1971), a Jewish author of Russian and Polish origins, wrote his famous Russian-language novel A Journey to the Land Zeka in pre-State Israel, one year after his release from a Soviet concentration camp (1946–1947). Having been one of the earliest testimonies about Stalin’s atrocities, this book was published in 1952 in its abridged version, whereas the unabridged version came out only in 2016. While the social and political significance of this book has been repeatedly discussed, its poetical and discursive strategies are understudied. This article makes a few steps in the direction of understanding of Margolin’s book seriocomic style, discourse of fairytale and fantasy, the Palestine-Zionist text, the sea motif and other themes. The analysis unveils the author’s ambitious literary project that hides behind the historical testimony and is intended to strengthen it.}, type={Artykuły / Articles}, title={A Journey to the Land Zeka: The Poetic Enigma of Julius Margolin}, title={A Journey to the Land Zeka: The Poetic Enigma of Julius Margolin}, URL={http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/109426/PDF/Sl.Orient.%204-18%204-R.Katsman.pdf}, doi={10.24425/slo.2018.125402}, keywords={Julius Margolin, GULAG, WW2, Russian literature in Israel, Jewish literature}, }