num_pages: 276
description: The creative literature that evolved from the Holocaust constitutes an unprecedented encounter between art and life. Those who wrote about the Holocaust were forced to extend the limits of their imaginations to encompass unspeakably violent extremes of human behavior. The result, as Ezrahi shows in By Words Alone , is a body of literature that transcends national and cultural boundaries and shares a spectrum of attitudes toward the concentration camps and the world beyond, toward the past and the future.
language: English
title: By Words Alone: The Holocaust in Literature
titlecomplete: By Words Alone: The Holocaust in Literature
ratings_count: 4
publisher: University of Chicago Press