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Holocaust Literature: Schulz, Levi, Spiegelman and the Memory of the Offence »

Authors: Gillian Banner, Colin Richmond
ISBN-13: 9780853033714, ISBN-10: 0853033714
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Mitchell Vallentine & Company
Date Published: February 2000
Edition: (Non-applicable)

	Foreword	ix
	Acknowledgements	xii
1	Introduction	1
	Schulz, Levi, Spiegelman: why these three?	1
	Modes, and especially the question of fiction	5
	Terminology	6
2	Memory's Attributes	9
	The compulsion to remember	13
	Survivors' memories: happy ending or moral vacuum?	17
	Memory as preparation	23
3	Bruno Schulz	37
	Schulz and the Holocaust: inklings of catastrophe?	37
	Narrative and Contingency	43
	'August'	44
	'Visitation'	48
	'Pan'	49
	'Cinnamon Shops'	52
	'The Street of Crocodiles'	66
4	Primo Levi	87
	Levi and memory	87
	Ricordati: 'carried in the heart'	88
	Memory and If This is a Man	91
	'On the Bottom'	95
	'Chemical Examination'	99
	'The Canto of Ulysses'	104
	Memory and The Mirror Maker	108
	Memory and The Drowned and the Saved	115
	Memory at last	124
	Ricordati: 'carried in the heart'. Or carved in the heart?	126
5	Art Spiegelman	131
	'Reality is too complex for comics'	131
Maus I	'No one wants anyway to hear such stories'	135
Maus II	'More I don't need to tell you'	152
6	Conclusion: Remembering in Future	188
	Bibliography	197
	Index	205