The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination

by Lawrence L. Langer

Book Overview

The immense service that Langer's careful, thoughtful, immensely intelligent and restrained study renders is that the esthetics of atrocity cease to be an exclusive domain of the victims. Many of his writers are not Jewish and several were not imprisoned or interned, and yet all of them have been driven by the death-camp universe. The atrocity of that time and the atrocities that have succeeded Auschwitz represent a continuity that may almost be called...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300021216
• ISBN13: 9780300021219
• Release Date: September 1977
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"