The shriek of silence : a phenomenology of the Holocaust novel / David Patterson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Prologue; 1 Theoretical Background; 2 The Word in Exile; 3 The Death of the Father; 4 The Death of the Child; 5 The Splitting of the Self; 6 The Resurrection of the Self; 7 The Implication of the Reader; Epilogue; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.

""In the Holocaust novel, silence is always a character, and the word is always its subject matter."" So writes David Patterson in this profound and original study of more than thirty important writers. Contrary to existing views, he argues, the Holocaust novel is not an attempt to depict an unimaginable reality or an ineffable horror. It is, rather, an endeavor to fetch the word from silence and restore it to meaning, to resurrect the human soul, to regenerate the relation between the self and God, the self and other, the self and itself. This book is less a critical study in the usual sense t.

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