Inga Clendinnen

Reading the Holocaust

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

More than fifty years after their occurrence, the events of the Holocaust remain for some of their most dedicated students as morally and intellectually baffling, as 'unthinkable', as they were at their first rumouring. Reading the Holocaust, first published in 2002, challenges that bafflement, and the demoralization that attends it. Exploring the experience of the Holocaust from both the victims' and the perpetrators' points of view, as it appears in histories and memoirs, films and poems, Inga Clendinnen seeks to dispel what she calls the 'Gorgon effect': the sickening of imagination and curiosity and the draining of the will that afflict so many of us when we try to look squarely at the persons and processes implicated in the Holocaust. Searching, eloquent and elegantly written, her book is an uncompromising attempt to extract the comprehensible from the unthinkable.

Produktdetails

• Canto
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 288g
• ISBN-13: 9780521012690
• ISBN-10: 0521012694
• Artikelnr.: 10529835

Autorenporträt

Inga Clendinnen is the author of Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517¿1570 (1989) and Aztecs: An Interpretation (1991). Reading the Holocaust has won the Premier's Award for General History in New South Wales.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Beginning; 2. Impediments; Part I. Victims: 3. Witnessing; 4. Resisting; Part II. Perpetrators: 5. Defining: inside the grey zone: the Auschwitz Sonderkommando; 6. Leaders; 7. The men in the green tunics: the order police in Poland; 8. The Auschwitz SS; 9. Representing the Holocaust.

Rezensionen

'... a brave, towering book which deserves to become famous ...' The Australian Book Review