Cosa fare del male che si è guardato in faccia?

Aharon Appelfeld, one of the most important Israeli writers, reflects on the multiform nature of evil that those who experienced the Holocaust, as he did, had to face, and he discusses how this experience can be communicated, even in its sensuality, only through literature. Literature – differently...

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Main Author: Aharon Appelfeld
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Rosenberg & Sellier 2010-12-01
Series:Rivista di Estetica
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/estetica/1737
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Summary:Aharon Appelfeld, one of the most important Israeli writers, reflects on the multiform nature of evil that those who experienced the Holocaust, as he did, had to face, and he discusses how this experience can be communicated, even in its sensuality, only through literature. Literature – differently form philosophy, historiography, and all other disciplines – “has the capacity to lead the atrocious experience back into the circle of life, to move it from the category of history to the category of art, because only art has the power to get the suffering out of the abyss”.
ISSN:0035-6212
2421-5864