Includes bibliographical references (pages 384-393) and index.
The past remembered -- W.G. Sebald: an act of restitution -- Rolf Hochhuth: breaking the silence -- Peter Weiss: the investigation -- Arthur Miller: the rememberer -- Anne Frank: everybody's heroine -- Jean Améry: home and language -- Primo Levi: from the darkness to the light -- Elie Wiesel: to forget is to deny -- Tadeusz Borowski: the world of stone -- Memory theft -- Coda.
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An exploration of the work of dramatists and writers connected by the idea of memory and its relationship to the Holocaust, this work begins with a discussion of W.G. Sebald and his examinations of the Holocaust and its interpretation in diaries, memoirs, drama and literature.
Remembering and imagining the Holocaust.
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Améry, Jean, 1912-1978
Borowski, Tadeusz, 1922-1951
Frank, Anne, 1929-1945
Hochhuth, Rolf, 1931-
Levi, Primo, 1919-1987
Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005
Sebald, W. G., 1944-2001
Weiss, Peter, 1916-1982
Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016
Autobiographical memory.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Personal narratives-- History and criticism.
Memory in literature.
Holocauste, 1939-1945-- Récits personnels-- Histoire et critique.