Aharon Appelfeld: From Individual Lament to Tribal Eternity.(Book Review)

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by Yigal Schwartz. Translated by Jeffrey M. Green, Foreword by Arnold J. Band. Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 2001. Pp. 194. $60.00 cloth; $19.95 paper.

Yigal Schwartz's Aharon Appelfeld is a work that moves the discussion of its subject beyond the context of the Holocaust, where most previous criticism of Appelfeld's work has remained. Schwartz's three-tiered book reads Appelfeld by using "Literature and Memory," "Literature and Place" and "Literature and Religious Anguish" as different points of entry to his multifaceted fictional world. Given that ...

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