The post-shoah fiction of anna Langfus (1920–1966): reader’s positioning and empathic unsettlement

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dc.citation.issue6
dc.citation.volume1
dc.contributor.authorGrenaudier-Klijn F
dc.date.available2021
dc.date.issued2021-06
dc.description.abstractPolish-born, writing-in-French novelist Anna Langfus (1920-1966) has left us a body of work with high testimonial, literary, epistemological and ethical value. Her three novels, imaginative works largely drawing from her own personal and direct experience of loss, estrangement and alienation, revolve around protagonists exiled from themselves and others. Chiefly concerned with the question of post-Holocaust identity, these narratives foreground the voice and experience of the survivor. Simultaneously, they seek an ethical communication with readers, who, for the most part, have not been subjected to nor left traumatized by the radical experience Langfus’ characters endured. Drawing on Dominick LaCapra’s notion of “empathic unsettlement”, and illustrating the discussion with quotes taken from Langfus’ thoughts on fiction-writing, this article discusses some of the narratorial choices she made – characterisation; rejection of pathos; gaps, silences and ellipses – in order to channel her ethical call to the reader.
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dc.format.extent147 - 156 (10)
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dc.identifier.citationIudaica Russica, 2021, 1 (6), pp. 147 - 156 (10)
dc.identifier.elements-id447057
dc.identifier.harvestedMassey_Dark
dc.identifier.issn2657-4861
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherUniversity of Silesia Press
dc.relation.isPartOfIudaica Russica
dc.rightsCC BY-SA
dc.subjectAnna Langfus ; reader's response ; characterisation ; Dominick LaCapra ; empathic unsettlement
dc.titleThe post-shoah fiction of anna Langfus (1920–1966): reader’s positioning and empathic unsettlement
dc.typeJournal article
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