Language:
French
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
Les Cahiers du Judaïsme
Angaben zur Quelle:
4 (1999) 103-114
Keywords:
Perec, Georges,
;
Holocaust survivors
Abstract:
Reflects on memories of a traumatic childhood of Jews and non-Jews, analyzing similarities and differences in their psychological states. Gives examples of memoirs or autobiographical stories by Albert Camus, Heinrich Böll, Otl Aicher, Georges Perec, Saul Friedländer, and Shlomo Breznitz. Deals with descriptions of the war period in memoirs by German writers who were anti-Nazi. Mentions that both Jews and those Germans who did not support Nazism felt victimized. Finds similarities in the works of Böll, Aicher, Friedländer, and Breznitz, in the way they reconstruct the past. All of them led a "double life". Friedländer and Breznitz survived in Catholic monasteries. In contrast, Böll returned to Germany after the war, to his country and his mother tongue. The Jewish writers did not return to their hometowns; they lost their parents and their ties with their childhood and its memory, which caused a loss of part of their identity.
Note:
Deals especially with Georges Perec's experience of the Holocaust.
URL:
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