The Language of Silence: West German Literature and the Holocaust Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Language of Silence: West German Literature and the Holocaust Book

Focussing on individual authors from Heinrich Boll to G3~nther Grass, Hermann Lenz to Peter Schneider, The Language of Silence offers an analysis of West German literature as it tries to come to terms with the Holocaust and its impact on postwar West German society. Exploring postwar literature as the barometer of Germany's unconsciously held values as well as of its professed conscience, Ernestine Schlant demonstrates that the confrontation with the Holocaust has shifted over the decades from repression, circumvention, and omission to an open acknowledgement of the crimes. Yet even today a "language of silence" remains since the victims and their suffering are still overlooked and ignored. Learned and exacting, Schlant's study makes an important contribution to our understanding of postwar German culture.Read More

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  • 0415922208
  • 9780415922203
  • Ernestine Schlant
  • 4 February 1999
  • Routledge
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 256
  • 1
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