Language:
English
Year of publication:
2014
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Quarterly Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
104,3 (2014) 354-361
Keywords:
Borges, Jorge Luis,
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
Abstract:
Argues that Borges wrote three major short stories that address the theme of Nazism and Nazi antisemitism: "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis tertius", "Deutsches Requiem", and "A Weary Man's Utopia". "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis tertius", written in 1940, expresses Borges's fear of a possible final victory of Nazism in the ongoing war; the two latter stories caution readers that the end of the war did not necessarily mean the end of the legacy that produced Nazism. In "Deutsches Requiem", the image of the fictitious Jewish poet David Jerusalem killed by the Nazi protagonist of the story symbolizes the humanism and intellectualism that oppose the Nazi system.
DOI:
10.1353/jqr.2014.0030
URL:
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