Language:
English
Year of publication:
1989
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Canadian Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
24,2 (1989) 65-77
Keywords:
Klein, A. M.
;
Richler, Mordecai,
;
Antisemitism History 1500-
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
;
Canadian literature History and criticism
Abstract:
Explores similarities and differences in the responses to Canadian fascism of the 1930s and to the Holocaust expressed by A.M. Klein (1909-72) in his poetry of that period and in his later novel "The Second Scroll" (1951), and by Mordecai Richler in his novel "St. Urbain's Horseman" (1971). Both writers share the desire to endorse and promote humanist values, but their work reflects their growing skepticism in view of man's proclivity to brutal victimization of his fellow man. Surveys the rise of the fascist movement in Quebec in the 1930s and the accompanying anti-Jewish propaganda. Klein condemned the phenomenon in his journalistic writing and in poetry, yet he had faith in a redemptive act which would restore justice and peace. In Richler, this faith is eroded.
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