Aharon Appelfeld's Fiction: Acknowledging the Holocaust

by Emily Miller Budick

How can a fictional text adequately or meaningfully represent the events of the Holocaust? Drawing on philosopher Stanley Cavell's ideas about "acknowledgment" as a respectful attentiveness to the world, Emily Miller Budick develops a penetrating philosophical analysis of major works by internationally prominent Israeli writer Aharon Appelfeld. Through sensitive discussions of the novels Badenheim 1939, The Iron Tracks, The Age of Wonders, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253344921
• ISBN13: 9780253344922
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 195 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher