Aharon Appelfeld's fiction : acknowledging the Holocaust / Emily Miller Budick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Budick, E. Miller.

Series:

Jewish literature and culture.

Jewish literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Apelfeld, Aharon--Criticism and interpretation.

Apelfeld, Aharon.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 195 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

1-282-07135-1

9786612071355

0-253-11106-4

OCLC:

475970819