From the Absent God to the Absent Text: Agnon and the Writing of Catastrophe

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Agnon and the Writing of Catastrophe

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The artistic representation of human historical catastrophes intimately connects the aesthetical with the ethical. How can one remember horrors? How can one aestheticise human calamities? Shmuel Yosef Agnon could not escape that ethico-aesthetic dilemma. This is apparently one of the main reasons he rarely directly addressed the Holocaust in his literature. In his attempts to reconcile ethics and poetics Agnon uses, consciously or not, philosophical and theological ideas. The following contribution will offer a detailed examination of some of his poetical attempts at writing about catastrophe.

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