Language:
French
Year of publication:
1989
Titel der Quelle:
Pardès
Angaben zur Quelle:
9-10 (1989) 60-72
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
Abstract:
A paper delivered at the colloquium "Penser Auschwitz", Paris, November 1988. Discusses why, in France and in Israel, there was no literature on the Holocaust in the years immediately following World War II. In Israel, one of the reasons was the necessity to construct a new state and to reject the Diaspora. Surveys when and how this theme appeared in Israeli literature. In France, some years after the war, it was the generation of immigrants from Eastern Europe who began to write about the Holocaust (e.g. Romain Gary, Elie Wiesel, Manès Sperber). Suggests that only writers who emigrated to France, for whom French was a "foreign" language, could express themselves on a subject which for French Jewish writers was "inexpressible" ("unspeakable").
Note:
Appeared in Italian as "La nascita di un discorso letterario ebraico intorno alla Shoà in Francia ed in Israele; parallelismi e dissomiglianze" in "Pensare Auschwitz" (1995) 70-84.
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