Rebecca has always loved listening to her grandmother's stories about Briar Rose. However, the old woman's astonishing and hard-to-believe admission that she "is" Briar Rose sets Rebecca on an unforgettable path of self-discovery that will change her life forever.Jane Yolen...
Holocaust literature is recognized as a major postwar literary genre, but there is little consensus as to its generic definition. As an addition to the "Genres in Context" series, "The Holocaust Novel" provides the first comprehensive generic study of Holocaust literature. This student-friendly vol...
Imre Kertesz, Elie Wiesel or Julius Fučík about the Holocaust. Although it’s a novel, it is an only slightly fictionalized account of experiences of its author as an inmate in no less than twenty Nazi concentration camps in France, Poland and Germany. ...
the 1970s, illustrates the quotidian working-class life in Cleveland, Ohio. One of the most celebrated graphic novels isArt Spiegelman’sMaus, a long tale of the Holocaust told (first in the pioneeringRawmagazineanthology) in anausterestyle and complex narrative layers, featuring the Nazis as ...
When she googled the three terms information about the Hungarian Gold Train appeared. The train held the valuable personal goods, jewelry, candlesticks, watches, furs, even gold, taken from Jews in Hungary during the Holocaust. “The structure of the book came first.”—WALDMAN “The structure...
I read Maus in two sittings when I was alone at home in January. If I had known that the book was about the Holocaust, and that the main character, Mr Spiegelman, would remind me so much of myDadi, I would have avoided reading it. ...
“One must never place a loaded gun on the stage if it isn’t going to go off,” Anton Chekhov is said to have told aspiring playwrights. In Central Stores, Vicki Baum’s novel, not one but two pistols are introduced in early chapters. Any reader who’s ever heard about Chekhov’s ...
"Now, how much do you know about the Holocaust?" "I know a lot," Michelle said. "How can you not know about the Holocaust? It was terrible, everyone knows that. I saw Schindler's List when it came out. I cried." "All right, crying at Schindler's List is a good start," I...
Other articles where The Zone of Interest is discussed: Martin Amis: The Zone of Interest (2014) revisits the Holocaust themes explored in Time’s Arrow. Told from the perspectives of two Nazis and a Jew, the novel examines the horrors of Auschwitz by ch
“i was a history teacher, and there is nothing pretty about the holocaust, and, for me, [ maus ] was a great way to depict a horrific time in history.” melasawn knight, another instructional supervisor, pointed out that while the board might not like the story maus has to tell, it...