Physical Description
353 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents
Introduction. The ethics of imagining the Holocaust : representation, responsibility, and reading. I. Memoirs. The ethics of reading Elie Wiesel's Night
Painful memories : the agony of Primo Levi
World into words : The diary of Anne Frank and Sophie Goetzel-Leviathan's The war from within. II. Realism. Haunted by history : Tadeusz Borowski's This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen
John Hersey's The wall : fiction as history in the first generation of Holocaust fiction
Popular fiction : Gerald Green's Holocaust : a novel of survival and triumph
Beyond the camps : Kosinski's The painted bird
The ontological problems of docufiction : William Styron's Sophie's choice
Keneally's and Spielberg's Schindler's list : realistic novel into epic film. III. Myth, parable, and fable. Schwarz-Bart's mythopoetic and historical humanism : The last of the just
Aharon Appelfeld's parables
Illuminating distorion and historical cartoon : Leslie Epstein's King of the jews. IV. Fantasy. The comic groteque of Spiegelman's Maus
Cynthia Ozick's fables : "The shawl" and "Rosa"
Bruno Schulz's nightmare in The street of crocodiles and Sanitarium under the sign of the hourglass and Cynthia Ozick's response in The messiah of Stockholm.
ISBN
0312173032
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-345) and index.
Introduction. The ethics of imagining the Holocaust : representation, responsibility, and reading. I. Memoirs. The ethics of reading Elie Wiesel's Night -- Painful memories : the agony of Primo Levi -- World into words : The diary of Anne Frank and Sophie Goetzel-Leviathan's The war from within. II. Realism. Haunted by history : Tadeusz Borowski's This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen -- John Hersey's The wall : fiction as history in the first generation of Holocaust fiction -- Popular fiction : Gerald Green's Holocaust : a novel of survival and triumph -- Beyond the camps : Kosinski's The painted bird -- The ontological problems of docufiction : William Styron's Sophie's choice -- Keneally's and Spielberg's Schindler's list : realistic novel into epic film. III. Myth, parable, and fable. Schwarz-Bart's mythopoetic and historical humanism : The last of the just -- Aharon Appelfeld's parables -- Illuminating distorion and historical cartoon : Leslie Epstein's King of the jews. IV. Fantasy. The comic groteque of Spiegelman's Maus -- Cynthia Ozick's fables : "The shawl" and "Rosa" -- Bruno Schulz's nightmare in The street of crocodiles and Sanitarium under the sign of the hourglass and Cynthia Ozick's response in The messiah of Stockholm.
