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The Midrashic Impulse and the Contemporary Literary Response to Trauma by Monica Osborne (review)
Ist Teil von
Modern Fiction Studies, 2020-12, Vol.66 (4), p.793-795
Ort / Verlag
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2020
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE: Universal journals
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Taking as her starting point Theodor Adorno’s famous injunction against poetry after Auschwitz, Osborne explains how efforts at representation become a substitute for the act of bearing witness and, in fact, increase the distance between us and the event. According to Osborne, an ethical response to the trauma must begin with failure—with a recognition that any effort to articulate the trauma will fall short or even transgress. According to Osborne, these scholars teach us how to read.