melancholy generation: Grossman's 'Book of interior grammar'
TitleThe melancholy generation: Grossman's 'Book of interior grammar'
Author
Call number809.93358/0041
Object number08129n
Place of publicationColumbus, Ohio, United States
PublisherThe Ohio State University Press
Year of publication
2012
Physical descriptionpp314-330
MaterialArticle
ISBN9780814251829
NotesArticle from the book 'After testimony: the ethics and aesthetics of Holocaust narrative for the future' pp314-330
Description
Argues that though not 'about' the Holocaust, Grossman's 1991 novel challenges the normalising drive of a post-Holocaust society that needed to suppress its recent traumatic past and reinvent itself in order to survive