Whether through its frequent presence in the news, or in history books, documentaries and fiction, the Holocaust is an event that refuses to go away. It is both a point of reference in the past and a point of moral interdiction and imperative in the present. Yet how is the modern reader to imagine the unimaginable and relate it to the present? The essays in this book examine the problems that underly the representation in literature of these poignant and horrific events.
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Whether through its frequent presence in the news, or in history books, documentaries and fiction, the Holocaust is an event that refuses to go away. It is both a point of reference in the past and a point of moral interdiction and imperative in the present. Yet how is the modern reader to imagine the unimaginable and relate it to the present? The essays in this book examine the problems that underly the representation in literature of these poignant and horrific events.
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First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. ISBN: 0333738861 Pages: 196 May show some very slight shelf wear but content fine and unread.