Language:
French
Year of publication:
2005
Titel der Quelle:
Cahiers Benjamin Fondane
Angaben zur Quelle:
8 (2005) 34-45
Keywords:
Fondane, Benjamin,
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
;
World War, 1939-1945 Jewish resistance
Abstract:
Argues that the work of Benjamin Fondane (1898-1944) between 1940-44 expresses poetic and metaphysical resistance to the war. The Jewish poet sympathized with the anguish of his persecuted co-religionists in France, but refused to turn his poetry into a moral, ideological, or political weapon. Existential poetry was an act of assertion, and, as such, resisted destructive forces which turned the individual into a "ghost". He continued to write and publish under a pseudonym until his arrest in 1944. After the liberation his work was published in the Free France press, together with that of Aragon, Char, and Eluard. Some of his poems were included in a book entitled "Cinc poètes assassinées" (1947). His work was not, however, considered resistance poetry in a postwar cultural climate marked by Marxist literary critique.
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