Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust by Christopher Bigsby

Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust by Christopher Bigsby

This is a meditation on memory and on the ways in which memory has operated in the work of writers for whom the Holocaust was a defining event. It is also an exploration of the ways in which fiction and drama have attempted to approach a subject so resistant to the imagination. Beginning with W. G. Sebald, for whom memory and the Holocaust were the roots of a special fascination, Bigsby moves on to consider those writers Sebald himself valued, including Arthur Miller, Anne Frank, Primo Levi and Peter Weiss, and those whose lives crossed in the bleak world of the camps, in fact or fiction. The book offers a chain of memories. It sets witness against fiction, truth against wilful deceit. It asks the question who owns the Holocaust - those who died, those who survived to bear witness, those who appropriated its victims to shape their own necessities.

'The chapters on the playwrights, Weiss, Hochhuth and especially Miller, offer enlightening insights …' The Times Literary Supplement

Christopher Bigsby is Professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia.

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ISBN 13	9780521869348
ISBN 10	052186934X
Title	Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust
Author	Christopher Bigsby
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2006-10-19
Number of pages	416
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