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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.
Introduction: Between Meaning and Truth; 1: The Public Secret; `Which of us did you murder?;́ Defining The Public Secret; The Public Secret In Never Let Me Go; The Impact of the Public Secret; Conclusion; 2: Evil; The Reality of the Nightmare: Arendt On Evil; Perpetrator Testimony; Perpetrator Fiction; Conclusion; 3: Stasis; Introduction; Twenty Minutes of Fateless; Submerging/Stoicism; The Paralyzing Horror of the Tralfamadorian Quincunx; Interlocking Spaces; Conclusion; 4: Disorientalism; Introduction; Obstacles to Reading Heart Of Darkness as a text about Colonial Genocide; `Aggravated Murder on A Great Scale:́ Genocide on The Congo; Marlowś and Conradś Complicity; Secrets and Lies; Conclusion; 5: Disorientalism Today; Introduction; African trauma literature?; Atrocity in Rwanda and Sudan; Authorship; Generic Characteristics; Conclusion; 6: Post-Holocaust Kitsch; Introduction; Peeping at Monsters in A Glass Case; How the holocaust became a fable; Conclusion; 7: Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
Holocauste, 1939-1945, dans la littérature
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature