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The Holocaust as Culture (Paperback)
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The Holocaust as Culture (Paperback)
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Loot Price R244
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Hungarian Imre Kertesz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in
2002 for "writing that upholds the fragile experience of the
individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history." His
conversation with literary historian Thomas Cooper that is
presented here speaks specifically to this relationship between the
personal and the historical. In The Holocaust as Culture, Kertesz
recalls his childhood in Buchenwald and Auschwitz and as a writer
living under the so-called soft dictatorship of communist Hungary.
Reflecting on his experiences of the Holocaust and the Soviet
occupation of Hungary following World War II, Kertesz likens the
ideological machinery of National Socialism to the oppressive
routines of life under communism. He also discusses the complex
publication history of Fateless, his acclaimed novel about the
experiences of a Hungarian child deported to Auschwitz, and the
lack of interest with which it was initially met in Hungary due to
its failure to conform to the communist government's simplistic
history of the relationship between Nazi occupiers and communist
liberators. The underlying theme in the dialogue between Kertesz
and Cooper is the difficulty of mediating the past and creating
models for interpreting history, and how this challenges ideas of
self. The title The Holocaust as Culture is taken from that of a
talk Kertesz gave in Vienna for a symposium on the life and works
of Jean Amery. That essay is included here, and it reflects on
Amery's fear that history would all too quickly forget the fates of
the victims of the concentration camps. Combined with an
introduction by Thomas Cooper, the thoughts gathered here reveal
Kertesz's views on the lengthening shadow of the Holocaust as an
ever-present part of the world's cultural memory and his idea of
the crucial functions of literature and art as the vessels of this
memory.
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