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The Shriek of Silence: A Phenomenology of the Holocaust Novel

David Patterson

This books is less a critical study than an impassioned meditation on the deeper sources of the Holcaust novel. Amont the authors examined are Elie Wiesel, Arnost Lustig, Aharon Appelfeld, Katzetnik 135633, Primo Levi, Yehuda Amichai, Piotr Rawicz, A. Anatolit, Saul Bellow, I.B. Singer, Anna Langfus, Rachmil Bryks, and Ilse Aichinger. The Shriek of Silence is a first in several respect: the first to examine the Holocaust novels in their original languages, the first to articulate a theoretical b

Book Details

  • Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
  • Publish Date: Jul 15th, 2014
  • Pages: 192
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.44in - 0.63lb
  • EAN: 9780813160139
  • Categories: JewishSubjects & Themes - Historical Events

About the Author

Patterson, David: - David Patterson, assistant professor of Russian at Oklahoma State University, is the author of The Affirming Flame: Religion, Language, Literature.

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Praise for this book

"A remarkable work of scholarship. One of those books which can energize an entire field." -- Harry James Cargas