Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
27,3 (2021) 371-386
Keywords:
Semprún, Jorge.
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Žižek, Slavoj Criticism and interpretation
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French fiction History and criticism
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
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Nazi concentration camps in literature
Abstract:
Taking a critical approach to Slavoj Žižek’s reading of Jorge Semprún’s novel Le Grand Voyage, the paper treats Žižek’s observations as being exemplary of a historically inexact usage of the term Holocaust (Literature) that strives to underpin the claims made by a normative poetics of Modernism by implying the existence of a more or less unquestionable interrelationship between Modernism and the Holocaust (experience) that hinges upon the idea of ‘trauma.’ Reconstructing the political experience behind – and the political ethics prevalent in – Semprún’s novel, the paper sets out to question this particular line of reasoning.
DOI:
10.1080/17504902.2020.1769370
URL:
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