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 riven 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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300019084
• ISBN13: 9780300019087
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.