Aharon Appelfeld's Fiction: Acknowledging the HolocaustHow can a fictional text adequately or meaningfully represent the events of the Holocaust? Drawing on philosopher Stanley Cavell's ideas about "acknowledgment" as a respectful attentiveness to the world, Emily Miller Budick develops a penetrating philosophical analysis of major works by internationally prominent Israeli writer Aharon Appelfeld. Through sensitive discussions of the novels Badenheim 1939, The Iron Tracks, The Age of Wonders, and Tzili, and the autobiographical work The Story of My Life, Budick reveals the compelling art with which Appelfeld renders the sights, sensations, and experiences of European Jewish life preceding, during, and after the Second World War. She argues that it is through acknowledging the incompleteness of our knowledge and understanding of the catastrophe that Appelfeld's fiction produces not only its stunning aesthetic power but its affirmation and faith in both the human and the divine. This beautifully written book provides a moving introduction to the work of an important and powerful writer and an enlightening meditation on how fictional texts deepen our understanding of historical events. Jewish Literature and Culture—Alvin H. Rosenfeld, editor |
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Table des matières
Historical | 1 |
The Iron Tracks | 50 |
Tzili | 106 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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Aharon Appelfeld's Fiction: Acknowledging the Holocaust Emily Miller Budick Affichage d'extraits - 2005 |
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acknowledge Age of Wonders already Appelfeld's fiction Badenheim become begins Bruno camps chapter characters child claim commandments concerning condition consciousness critic culture death describe divine Erwin especially evil existence experience expression fact faith father finally freedom happened hear Hebrew Holocaust human idea imagination important individual insect interpretation Iron Tracks Israel Jewish Jews kind knowledge language later least less literally literary literature lives material meaning memory moral mother murder narrative nature Nazis nonetheless novel object original pain particular passage past perhaps person political possibility prayer present Press problem produces provides puts question reader reading reality reason relation religious remember repetition representation repression response scene seems sense silence speak specifically stand story suggest tells things thinking tion tradition translation trauma truth Tzili understand University voice words writing
Informations bibliographiques
| Titre | Aharon Appelfeld's Fiction: Acknowledging the Holocaust Jewish Literature and Culture, ISSN 2578-4420 |
| Auteur | E. Miller Budick |
| Éditeur | Indiana University Press, 2005 |
| Original provenant de | l'Université de Californie |
| Numérisé | 18 mars 2008 |
| ISBN | 0253344921, 9780253344922 |
| Longueur | 195 pages |
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