Language:
German
Year of publication:
2000
Titel der Quelle:
Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik
Angaben zur Quelle:
30 [120] (2000) 108-129
Keywords:
Améry, Jean
;
Kertész, Imre,
;
Edvardson, Cordelia,
;
Klüger, Ruth,
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
;
Holocaust survivors
Abstract:
Asks how memory of the Holocaust is transmitted to later generations, and analyzes the relationship between the experiencing and the writing self - the self who gives the experience literary form - in the memoirs of Jean Améry, Cordelia Edvardson, Imre Kertész, and Ruth Klüger. Literary writing on the Holocaust requires some sort of distancing and objectification. Améry wrote from a distance of twenty years, the others of forty and more. Each chose different methods: Améry, narrative broken by reflection; Kertész, a simple-minded young narrator and his naïve observation and acceptance of horrible situations; Edvardson the use of the third person and of montage; and Klüger, reflections on the time of writing as the context of her narrative.
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