Language:
English
Year of publication:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
Poetics Today
Angaben zur Quelle:
17,4 (1996) 639-657
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust survivors
Abstract:
Analyzes memoirs written by Hungarian survivors of the Holocaust in a language which they experience as foreign (English, French), therefore memoirs addressed to a foreign audience. Each author must translate his experience to the reader, and at the same time signals his foreignness. Notes common traits of these memoirs (composition, dedications to those who died, etc.). Suleiman, herself a Holocaust survivor born in Hungary, relates the impression made on her by the use of Hungarian names and of common experiences (selection in Auschwitz, the role of luck in one's survival, the necessity to make choices, etc.) in the narratives.
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