Language:
French
Year of publication:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
Tsafon; revue d'études juives du Nord
Angaben zur Quelle:
82 (2022) 15-38
Keywords:
Schwarz-Bart, André,
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Schwarz-Bart, André,
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Schwarz-Bart, André, Archives
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French fiction History and criticism
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
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West Indies, French In literature
Abstract:
André Schwarz-Bart is best known for The Last of the Just, winner of the 1959 Goncourt Prize, one of the first works of fiction on the Shoah, confronted obliquely in a 'saga of identity'. Its hero is the entire Jewish people, embodied in an exemplary imaginary family. A West Indian work on black slavery followed, built on a similar principle around an archetypal family, that of the mythico-historical character of La mulâtresse Solitude. Disappointed by the reaction of some of his readers, André Schwarz-Bart chose silence after 1972. He stopped publishing, without ever stopping writing. The study of thousands of his handwritten notes gives us an idea of his evolving conception of writing about the Shoah, until his death in 2006.
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