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H. G. Adler: Life, Literature, Legacy is the first collection of essays in English dedicated to the life and work of German-language author H. G. Adler. Among the international scholars of German, Jewish, and Holocaust literature and history who reveal the range of Adlerās legacy across genres are Adlerās son, Jeremy Adler, and Peter Filkins, translator of Adlerās trilogy, Panorama (The Journey).
Together, the essays examine Adlerās writing in relation to his life, especially his memory as a survivor of the Nazi death camps and his posthumous recognition for having produced a Gesamkunstwerk, an aesthetic synthesis of the Shoah. The book carries the moral charge of Adlerās work, moving beyond testimony to a complex dialectic between fact and fiction, exploring Adlerās experiments with voice and the ethical work of literary engagement with the Shoah.
Together, the essays examine Adlerās writing in relation to his life, especially his memory as a survivor of the Nazi death camps and his posthumous recognition for having produced a Gesamkunstwerk, an aesthetic synthesis of the Shoah. The book carries the moral charge of Adlerās work, moving beyond testimony to a complex dialectic between fact and fiction, exploring Adlerās experiments with voice and the ethical work of literary engagement with the Shoah.
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H. G. Adler: Life, Literature, Legacy is the first collection of essays in English dedicated to the life and work of German-language author H. G. Adler. Among the international scholars of German, Jewish, and Holocaust literature and history who reveal the range of Adlerās legacy across genres are Adlerās son, Jeremy Adler, and Peter Filkins, translator of Adlerās trilogy, Panorama (The Journey).
Together, the essays examine Adlerās writing in relation to his life, especially his memory as a survivor of the Nazi death camps and his posthumous recognition for having produced a Gesamkunstwerk, an aesthetic synthesis of the Shoah. The book carries the moral charge of Adlerās work, moving beyond testimony to a complex dialectic between fact and fiction, exploring Adlerās experiments with voice and the ethical work of literary engagement with the Shoah.
Together, the essays examine Adlerās writing in relation to his life, especially his memory as a survivor of the Nazi death camps and his posthumous recognition for having produced a Gesamkunstwerk, an aesthetic synthesis of the Shoah. The book carries the moral charge of Adlerās work, moving beyond testimony to a complex dialectic between fact and fiction, exploring Adlerās experiments with voice and the ethical work of literary engagement with the Shoah.
