Language:
English
Year of publication:
2014
Titel der Quelle:
European Judaism
Angaben zur Quelle:
47,1 (2014) 26-40
Keywords:
Schwarz-Bart, André,
;
Jewish literature History and criticism
Abstract:
Over fifty years after the publication of "The Last of the Just", its author André Schwarz-Bart is being read again. Despite the criticism that the novel has provoked since its first publication in 1959, "The Last of the Just" has proven to be a timeless literary work. Argues that Schwarz-Bart's novels are timeless due to their universalism. Concealed at the heart of "The Last of the Just", running alongside the mystery of Jewish suffering, is a story on how modern racist violence produces a particular kind of misery - a uniquely oppressive, implacable, physical, and historical suffering that isolates its victims, whether individually or as a group.
DOI:
10.3167/ej.2014.47.01.05
URL:
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