Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust: The Chain of Memory - Hardcover

Bigsby, Christopher

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 052186934X ISBN 13: 9780521869348

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Synopsis

This is a meditation on memory and on the ways in which memory has operated in the work of writers for whom the Holocaust was a defining event. It is also an exploration of the ways in which fiction and drama have attempted to approach a subject so resistant to the imagination. Beginning with W. G. Sebald, for whom memory and the Holocaust were the roots of a special fascination, Bigsby moves on to consider those writers Sebald himself valued, including Arthur Miller, Anne Frank, Primo Levi and Peter Weiss, and those whose lives crossed in the bleak world of the camps, in fact or fiction. The book offers a chain of memories. It sets witness against fiction, truth against wilful deceit. It asks the question who owns the Holocaust - those who died, those who survived to bear witness, those who appropriated its victims to shape their own necessities.

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Book Description

This is a meditation on memory and on the ways in which memory has operated in the work of writers for whom the Holocaust was a defining event. Writers discussed include W. G. Sebald, Primo Levi, Anne Frank, Arthur Miller, Peter Weiss and Rolf Hochhuth.

About the Author

Christopher Bigsby is Professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 052186934X
• ISBN 13: 9780521869348
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416