Admitting the Holocaust: Collected Essays

ISBN-13: 9780195106480 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 224 str.

Lawrence L. Langer

Opis

This series of penetrating often gripping essays covers a wide range of issues, from the Holocaust's relation to time and memory and its portrayal in literature to its use and abuse by culture and its role in rehaping our sense of history's legacy. "Indispensable. . . . Clear, persuasive, and compelling."--Detroit Free Press.

Recenzje

"Important...bring[s] us back from the vacancy of words to the destiny of physical reality....Mr. Langer...illuminates the literature of the Holocaust—the chronicles of ghetto and camp, the fiction and poetry wrought out of the horror, the representations in film."—The New York Times Book Review

O autorze

Lawrence L. Langer is Professor of English at Simmons College in Boston. The winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award for Holocaust Testimonies, he has also written Versions of Survival, The Age of Atrocity, and The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination.