Poesis in Extremis: Literature Witnessing the Holocaust

by Daniel Feldman and Efraim Sicher

How can genocide be witnessed through imaginative literature? How can the Holocaust affect readers who were not there?

Reading the work of major figures such as Elie Wiesel, Paul Celan, Avrom Sutzkever, Ida Fink, Wladyslaw Szlengel, Itzhak Katzenelson, and Czeslaw Milosz, Poesis in Extremis poses fundamental questions about how prose and poetry are written under extreme conditions, either in real time or immediately after the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0C5PNCNYK
• ISBN13: 9798765100189
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"