Translating Holocaust Literature [German]

by Peter Arnds

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In his testimony on his survival in Auschwitz, Primo Levi said "our language lacks words to express this offense, the demolition of a man." If language, if any language, lacks the words to express the experience of the concentration camps, how does one write the unspeakable? How can it then be translated? The limits of representation and translation seem to be closely linked when it comes to writing about the Holocaust--whether as fiction, memoir,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:German

ISBN:3847105019

ISBN13:9783847105015

Release Date:November 2015

Publisher:V&R Unipress

Length:156 Pages

Weight:1.35 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.2" x 9.3"

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History Language Arts Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections

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