The Holocaust novel / Efraim Sicher.

By:

Sicher, Efraim

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Genres in contextPublisher: New York : Routledge, 2005Description: 1 online resource (xxix, 261 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781135457082
1135457085
9780203957738
0203957733

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Holocaust novelDDC classification:

809.3/9358 22

LOC classification:

PN3352.H63 S53 2005eb

NLM classification:

000128921

Other classification:

17.93

Online resources:

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Contents:

1. About the Holocaust novel -- 2. Survivors : "If it is a novel, it is not about Majdanek ..." -- 3. The Jewish American Post-Holocaust novel : imagining the unimaginable -- 4. Holocaust fictions, or fictional Holocausts -- 5. The "second generation" : the vicarious witness -- 6. Postmodernist "holocausts."

Summary: Consists of a study of the genre of the Holocaust novel, which treats major texts in their cultural and literary contexts. Discusses survivor novelists, works by writers who are neither witnesses nor descendants of survivors, Jewish American post-Holocaust novelists, writers of the "second generation, " and post-modern works that deal with the Holocaust indirectly. Among the works discussed are Wiesel's "Night, " Primo Levi's "If Not Now, When?, " Kosinski's "Painted Bird, " Appelfeld's "Badenheim 1939," Bellow's "Mr. Sammler's Planet, " and David Grossman's "See Under Love." Concludes with a bibliographic essay. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism)

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-250) and index.

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English.

Consists of a study of the genre of the Holocaust novel, which treats major texts in their cultural and literary contexts. Discusses survivor novelists, works by writers who are neither witnesses nor descendants of survivors, Jewish American post-Holocaust novelists, writers of the "second generation, " and post-modern works that deal with the Holocaust indirectly. Among the works discussed are Wiesel's "Night, " Primo Levi's "If Not Now, When?, " Kosinski's "Painted Bird, " Appelfeld's "Badenheim 1939," Bellow's "Mr. Sammler's Planet, " and David Grossman's "See Under Love." Concludes with a bibliographic essay. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism)

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