Aharon Appelfeld's fiction : acknowledging the Holocaust
"How 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 Appelfeld's novels Badenheim 1939, The Iron Tracks, The Age of Wonders, and Tzili, and his autobiographical work The Story of a 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."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, ©2005
Indiana University Press, Bloomington, ©2005
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xix, 195 pages ; 24 cm.
9780253344922, 0253344921
56493645
Acknowledgment and the human condition : historical, psychoanalytic, and philosophical approaches to writing on the Holocaust
Literature, ideology, and the measure of moral freedom : Badenheim 1939
Fear, trembling, and the pathway to God : the iron tracks
The conditions that condition this utterly specific people : the age of wonders
Religious faith and the "question of the human" : Tzili : the story of a life
Imagination, memory, and the storied life : the story of a life