In place of the absent God: the reader in Dan Pagis's 'Written in Pencil in a Sealed Railway Car'.(Critical Essay)

Cross Currents | June 22, 2004| | Copyright

While thinking about the challenges of both reading and teaching the literature of the Holocaust, I find myself grappling not only with the ethical and aesthetic dimensions of post-Holocaust art, but with the meaning of asking students to investigate the traumatic memories of an earlier generation. I have taught Catholic students relatively sheltered from the long shadows cast by the Auschwitz universe, as well as the grandchildren of survivors and even an occasional self-identified descendent of perpetrators. On not a few occasions I have asked myself, what really is to be ...

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