Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Literatures and Cultures in Southeastern Europe
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2021) 375-391
Keywords:
Appelfeld, Aharon.
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Drndić, Daša,
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Hebrew fiction, Modern History and criticism
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Holocaust survivors' writings History and criticism
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Croatian fiction History and criticism
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Intertextuality
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
Abstract:
Aharon Appelfeld (1932–2018) was an Israeli writer from Bukovina who wrote in Hebrew, recalling in his prose the lost Jewish world of Czernowitz. Among the many stories he wrote on the basis of his experiences as a survivor of the Shoah, there is one—sippur ḥayyim (1999; The Story of a Life, 2004)—which is partly included as intertext in the novel Totenwande by the Croatian authoress Daša Drndić (1946–2018). This is the starting point of the comparative analysis in this paper, which is aimed at exploring different authorial poetics but also an attempt to place their writing in the context of different policies for addressing the violent past of World War II. Special attention is paid to the topic of language(s), which is problematized in different ways in their Holocaust novels.
DOI:
10.7767/9783205212904.375
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