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The Broken Voice - Reading Post-Holocaust Literature (Hardcover)
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The Broken Voice - Reading Post-Holocaust Literature (Hardcover)
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'Which writer today is not a writer of the Holocaust?' asked the
late Imre Kertesz, Hungarian survivor and novelist, in his Nobel
acceptance speech: 'one does not have to choose the Holocaust as
one's subject to detect the broken voice that has dominated modern
European art for decades'. Robert Eaglestone attends to this broken
voice in literature in order to explore the meaning of the
Holocaust in the contemporary world, arguing, again following
Kertesz, that the Holocaust will 'remain through culture, which is
really the vessel of memory'. Drawing on the thought of Hannah
Arendt, Eaglestone identifies and develops five concepts-the public
secret, evil, stasis, disorientalism, and kitsch-in a range of
texts by significant writers (including Kazuo Ishiguro, Jonathan
Littell, Imre Kertesz, W. G. Sebald, and Joseph Conrad) as well as
in work by victims and perpetrators of the Holocaust and of
atrocities in Africa. He explores the interweaving of complicity,
responsibility, temporality, and the often problematic powers of
narrative which make up some part of the legacy of the Holocaust.
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