Aharon Appelfeld: The Holocaust and Beyond (Jewish Literature & Culture) - Hardcover

Ramras-Rauch, Gila

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0253348315 ISBN 13: 9780253348319

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1994

Synopsis

"All those who admire Aharon Appelfeld's work will find Gila Ramras-Rauch's analysis both exciting and rewarding." - Elie Wiesel. The contemporary Hebrew novelist Aharon Appelfeld is one of the foremost chroniclers of the impact of the Holocaust on the human psyche. His fiction weaves sensitive and disturbing tales about individuals in the pre- and post-Holocaust worlds. In the first book devoted entirely to Appelfeld's work, Gila Ramras-Rauch explores his life, his shattered universe, and the development of his unique esthetic. A book-by-book analysis of his entire body of fiction - short stories, novellas, and novels from the early 1960s to the early 1990s, including such works as "Smoke"; "Tzili, the Story of a Life"; "Badenheim, 1939"; and "Katerina" - provides a perceptive guide to Appelfeld's oeuvre.

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From the Back Cover:

The contemporary Hebrew novelist Aharon Appelfeld is one of the foremost chroniclers of the impact of the Holocaust on the human psyche. His fiction weaves sensitive and disturbing tales about individuals in the pre- and post-Holocaust worlds. In the first book devoted entirely to Appelfeld's work, Gila Ramras-Rauch explores his life, his shattered universe, and the development of his unique esthetic. A book-by-book analysis of his entire body of fiction - short stories, novellas, and novels from the early 1960s to the early 1990s, including such works as Smoke; Tzili, the Story of a Life; Badenheim 1939; and Katerina - provides a perceptive guide to Appelfeld's enchanted yet terrifying fictional world.

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0253348315
• ISBN 13: 9780253348319
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 228