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Imagining the Holocaust

Imagining the Holocaust

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Literary CriticismJudaismHolocaust

Publisher Price: $29.99

ISBN10: 0312233019
ISBN13: 9780312233013
Publisher: St Martins Pr 3Pl
Published: Dec 15 2000
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

In Imagining the Holocaust, Daniel R. Schwarz examines widely read Holocaust narratives which have shaped the way we understand and respond to the events of that time. He begins with first person narratives - Wiesel's Night and Levi's Survival at Auschwitz - and then turns to searingly realistic fictions such as Borowski's This Way to the Gas Chamber, Ladies and Gentlemen, before turning to the Kafkaesque parables of Appelfeld and the fantastic cartoons of Spiegleman's Maus books. Schwarz argues that as we move further away from the original events, the narratives authors use to render the Holocaust horror evolve to include fantasy and parable, and he shows how diverse audiences respond differently to these highly charged and emotional texts.

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