Imagining the Holocaust / by Daniel R. Schwarz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schwarz, Daniel R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives--History and criticism.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Physical Description:

353 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.

Summary:

From Elie Wiesel's "Night" to Art Spiegelman's fantastic "Maus, " this book presents a thought-provoking look at the ways in which writers in the late 20th century have shaped the way readers understand and respond to the events surrounding the Holocaust.

Contents:

Part I Memoirs

The Ethics of Reading 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

Part II Realism

Tadeusz Borowski's This Way to the Gas Chambers, Ladies and Gentlemen, and Other Stories

John Hersey's The Wall : Fiction as History in the First Generation of Holocaust Fiction

Popular Fiction: Gerald Green'sHolocaust: 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/i

Kineally's and Spielberg's Schindler's List : Realistic Novel into Epic Film

Part III Myth, Parable, and Fable

Schwarz-Bart's Mythopoeic and Historical Humanism: The Last of the Just

Aharon Appelfeld's Parables

Illuminating Distortion and Historical Cartoon: Leslie Epstein's King of the Jews

Part IV Fantasy

The Comic Grotesque of Spiegleman'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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0312173032

OCLC:

40734954