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The language of silence

by Ernestine Schlant · 1997

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Examines the writings of non-Jewish West German novelists from 1949 to 1990 to explore how West Germans remember the Holocaust and handle the burden of guilt associated with it.

German literatureHistory and criticismHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literatureJudaism and literatureDuitsHolocauste, 1939-1945, dans la littératureLetterkundeHolocaustHistoire et critiqueLiteraturJudenvernichtungLittérature allemande