The conflagration of community
Subtitle: fiction before and after Auschwitz
By: J. Hillis Miller
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780226527215; 9780226527222
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Theories of community; title: Nancy contra Stevens; title: Franz Kafka: premonitions of Auschwitz; title: Foreshadowings of Auschwitz in Kafka's writings; title: The breakdown of community and the disabling of speech acts in Kafka's The trial; title: The castle: no Mitsein, no verifiable interpretation; title: Holocaust novels; title: Three novels about the Shoah; title: Imre Kertész's Fatelessness: fiction as testimony; title: Fiction after Auschwitz; title: Morrison's Beloved.