Reading the Holocaust
Reading the Holocaust
£22.99
GBPMore 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.
- A new perspective to Holocaust studies
- A wide-ranging, accessible, often moving study, written in elegant, jargon-free prose
- Original hardback edition won the Premier's Award for General History in New South Wales
Reviews & endorsements
'… a brave, towering book which deserves to become famous …' The Australian Book Review
'This is a deeply humane book; one need only listen to a current news report to understand why it is a necessary one.' The Times Literary Supplement
'Beautifully written and exactly felt, Reading the Holocaust is a major contribution to collective remembering and to the register of what happens.' Clifford Geertz
'… a deeply compassionate book of extraordinary importance.' Canberra Times
'… impressively humane, open-ended and generous guide … Clendinnen is 'an outsider writing for outsiders'...' The Weekend Australian
'... this is an important, insightful, superbly written meditation on a sorrow beyond words, well worth the attention of outsiders and insiders alike.' New York Times Book Review
Product details
May 2002Paperback
9780521012690
238 pages
216 × 138 × 17 mm
0.288kg
7 b/w illus. 1 map
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Table of Contents
- 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.
