Witnessing, Memory, Poetics: H. G. Adler and W. G. Sebald

Since 1945, authors and scholars have intensely debated what form literary fiction about the Holocaust should take. The works of H. G. Adler (1910-1988) and W. G. Sebald (1944-2001), two modernist scholar-poets who settled in England but never met, present new ways of reconceptualizing the nature of witnessing, literary testimony, and the possibility of a "poetics" after Auschwitz. Adler, a Czech Jew who survived Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, was...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571135898
• ISBN13: 9781571135896
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"