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"A powerful and sobering analysis of the limits of art."
-Arthur C. Danto, Columbia University
HOLOCAUST
REPRESENTATION
Berel Lang
Art within the Lim its of
History and Ethics
"With his profound philosophical grasp of both aesthetic and
ethical issues at play in Holocaust literature and art, Bere! Lang
brings great clarity to the very clifficult and complex issues
sUITouncling Holocaust representation-whether by survivors or
by the next generation."
- James E. Young, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Displaying at once the intellectual precision of a philosopher,
the verbal sensitivity of a literary critic, and the concreteness of a
historian, Bere! Lang has produced an immense!y appealing book
that will attract readers throughout the humanities.
Holocallst
Representatioll
brilliantly rethinks and reclirects that flourishing
new genre, the book about Holocaust writing."
-Herbert lindenberger, Stanford University
"Bere! Lang offers a compellingly original, subtle, and provoca–
tive meclitation on those historical and ethical constraints that
invariably limit the representation of the 'unrepresentable,'
the speaking of the 'unspeakable.' Joining philosophical inquiry
and historical analysis, literary criticism and art history, Lang
presents a new interpretation of the 'blurring'--of literary genres,
of artistic forms , of historical discourses, of stylistic conventions–
that, in the
tifienlJards
of history and memory, extreme trauma
imposes on representation."
-Richard Stamelman, Williams College
$38.00 hardcover
The Johns Hopkins University Press
1-800-537-5487 ·
Partisan Review
Published at Boston University
Printed in the U.S.A.
