The Holocaust and the Text
Subtitle: Speaking the Unspeakable
Contributors: Andrew Leak (Editor); George Paizis (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: January 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780312228668
Subjects: Literature And Society; Special Subjects In Literature; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; History: World; European - General; Jewish; Military - World War II; History / Holocaust; General; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945),; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
Description: "The Holocaust is an event that refuses to stay in the past. By its nature it both defies and cries out for representation and interpretation; yet representation is at the same time necessarily reductive of the reality to which it refers. Yet however inadequate, representation, of one sort or another, is the only means we have to transmit and appropriate past human experience.".

"The essays in this volume take as their starting point the strivings of imaginative writing to surmount this problem and the search for ways to connect past experience to the present and future: if we do not learn the lessons of history we risk repeating its tragic mistakes. The book leaves us with the message that literature might have a unique role to play in this respect."--BOOK JACKET.