TY - GEN T1 - The shriek of silence : a phenomenology of the Holocaust novel A1 - Patterson, David, 1948- LA - English PP - Lexington PB - The University Press of Kentucky YR - 2015 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn900345076 AB - ""In the Holocaust novel, silence is always a character, and the word is always its subject matter."" So writes David Patterson in this profound and original study of more than thirty important writers. Contrary to existing views, he argues, the Holocaust novel is not an attempt to depict an unimaginable reality or an ineffable horror. It is, rather, an endeavor to fetch the word from silence and restore it to meaning, to resurrect the human soul, to regenerate the relation between the self and God, the self and other, the self and itself. This book is less a critical study in the usual sense t. OP - 190 CN - PN56.H55 P38 2015 SN - 9780813161495 SN - 0813161495 SN - 9780813117683 KW - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. KW - Jewish fiction : History and criticism. KW - Holocauste, 1939-1945, dans la litteĢrature. KW - Roman juif : Histoire et critique. KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY : Literary. KW - HISTORY : Holocaust. KW - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature KW - Jewish fiction KW - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature KW - Jewish fiction : History and criticism KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. ER -