Language:
English
Year of publication:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
The Art of Crime
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2004) 71-87
Keywords:
Pinter, Harold,
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
Abstract:
Contends that Pinter's play, although it never shows Nazi criminal behavior nor uses the words Nazi or Jew, invokes Holocaust history. It refers indirectly to the career of Albert Speer, and may owe its core to Sereny's book about Speer. The play suggests that sustained empathy with the legacy of atrocity is made problematic by bourgeois comfort and the distance between the genocide and the audience. Illuminates the difficulty of later generations witnessing to the Holocaust, due to psychological and social pressures which silence such witnessing. The heroine of the play is paralyzed by her concern for Holocaust suffering.
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