Admitting the Holocaust
Admitting the Holocaust by Lawrence L. Langer is a collection of essays about the Holocaust and how it is perceived in literature by our culture. Langer explores oral testimonies, diaries and fiction that consider the devastation of the Holocaust a central theme. He takes a look at human values in the light of that devastation. He exhibits the concern between literature and testimony. His hope is that the Holocaust experience will not be sentimentalized in the various forms of literature and media. Langer wants the Holocaust to be presented as "it really was -- evil." Throughout his book Langer makes reference to various other writers novels and articles about the death camps. He criticizes such authors as William Styron and Bernard Malamud. According to Langer ("Beyond Theodicy: Jewish Victims and the Holocaust" and "Malamud's Jews and the Holocaust Experience,"), "too many historical and cultural representations of the Nazis' murderers try, by portraying the Jewish victims as dignified martyrs, to introduce the notion of spiritual redemption into the accounts of atrocities that need to be confronted without moral
Through these essays, Langer tries to show some way to save us from English-At the Mind's Limit) observation that "no bridge led from death in
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Approximate Word count = 1467
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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