By Words Alone: The Holocaust in Literature

by Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi and Professor Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi

Book Overview

The creative literature that evolved from the Holocaust constitutes an unprecedented encounter between art and life. Those who wrote about the Holocaust were forced to extend the limits of their imaginations to encompass unspeakably violent extremes of human behavior. The result, as Ezrahi shows in By Words Alone , is a body of literature that transcends national and cultural boundaries and shares a spectrum of attitudes toward the concentration camps...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226233359
• ISBN13: 9780226233352
• Release Date: April 1980
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 276 Pages