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Record Nr.

UNINA9910449810403321

Autore

Budick E. Miller

Titolo

Aharon Appelfeld's fiction [[electronic resource] ] : acknowledging the Holocaust / / Emily Miller Budick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2005

ISBN

1-282-07135-1

9786612071355

0-253-11106-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

Jewish literature and culture

Disciplina

892.4/36

Soggetti

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-189) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgment and the human condition : historical, psychoanalytic, and philosophical approaches to writing on the Holocaust -- Literature, ideology, and the measure of moral freedom : Badenheim 1939 -- Fear, trembling, and the pathway to God : the iron tracks -- The conditions that condition this utterly specific people : the age of wonders -- Religious faith and the "question of the human" : Tzili : the story of a life -- Imagination, memory, and the storied life : the story of a life.

Sommario/riassunto

How can a fictional text adequately or meaningfully represent the events of the Holocaust? Drawing on philosopher Stanley Cavell's ideas about ""acknowledgment"" as a respectful attentiveness to the world, Emily Miller Budick develops a penetrating philosophical analysis of major works by internationally prominent Israeli writer Aharon Appelfeld. Through sensitive discussions of the novels Badenheim 1939, The Iron Tracks, The Age of Wonders, and Tzili, and the autobiographical work The Story of My Life