Aharon Appelfeld's Fiction: Acknowledging the Holocaust

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi 1. Acknowledgment and the Human Condition: Historical, Psychoanalytic, and Philosophical Approaches to Writing on the Holocaust 1 2. Literature, Ideology, and the Measure of Moral Freedom: Badenheim 1939 27 3. Fear, Trembling, and the Pathway to God: The Iron Tracks 50 4. The Conditions That Condition This Utterly Speci¤c People: The Age of Wonders 78 5. Religious Faith and the “Question of the Human”: Tzili: The Story of a Life 106 6. Imagination, Memory, and the Storied Life: The Story of a Life 153 Notes 181 Works by Appelfeld Cited in Text 191 Index 193 ...