In her provocative study A Thousand Darknesses, Ruth Franklin investigates questions of meaning, history, and literary value as they arise in the most significant works of Holocaust fiction. Franklin argues that the memory-obsessed culture of the last few decades has led us to mistakenly focus on testimony as the only valid form of Holocaust writing, denying the inherently hybrid natureof the memoir while also neglecting novels and other imaginative forms that radiate meaning in other equally or even more powerful ways. INDICE: Introduction; Part One: The Witnesses; 1.: Angry Young Man: Tadeusz Borowski; 2.: The Alchemist: Primo Levi; 3.: The Kabbalist in the Death Camps: Elie Wiesel; 4.: The Anti-Witness: Piotr Rawicz; Part Two: The Winding Border; 5.: The Art of the Self: Jerzy Kosinski; 6.: Child of Auschwitz: Imre Kertesz; 7.: Oskar Schindler and His List; 8.: Wolfgang Koeppen; 9.: W.G. Sebald; Part Three: The Future; 10.: Bernhard Schlink; 11.: Identity Theft: The Second Generation; 12.: The Third Generation?
- ISBN: 978-0-19-531396-3
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 304
- Fecha Publicación: 27/01/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés