Language:
German
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
73 [Sonderheft] (1999) 215-245
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
Abstract:
States that all Holocaust literature faces the dilemma of the need for authenticity in communicating the Holocaust experience and its incommunicability. Until the mid-1980s, while memory of the Holocaust was still based on living witnesses, literature such as the documentary dramas of Rolf Hochhuth and Peter Weiss put the emphasis on straightforward communication and authenticity; these did not seem open to question. Since then, with memory becoming collective and based on writing, works by authors such as Ruth Klüger, Imre Kertész, Louis Begley, Edgar Hilsenrath, or Art Spiegelman problematize communicability and deal with the Holocaust by literary devices that subvert the consensual narrative and frustrate the wish for meaning.
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