Reading Holocaust fiction at the end of the twentieth century: 'Jakob the liar' and 'Life is beautiful'
TitleReading Holocaust fiction at the end of the twentieth century: 'Jakob the liar' and 'Life is beautiful'
Author
Call number940.5318072/0062
Object number08949i
Place of publicationNewark, Delaware, United States
PublisherUniversity of Delaware Press
Year of publication
2014
Physical descriptionpp161-174
MaterialArticle
ISBN9780611490565
NotesArticle from the book 'National responses to the Holocaust: national identity and public memory' pp 161-174
Description
This essay explores the way that two twentieth century movie texts - 'Jakob the liar' and 'Life is beautiful' - have created narratives in which redemption and hope are understood to be the natural consequences of trauma, whereas earlier texts, such as East German Jurek Becker's novel 'Jakob the liar', stubbornly remind the reader time and again, that mass murder does not inspire optimism and hope in the survivors, In the novel there is also no redemptive hope for the dead.
