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'The Absolute Event of History': The Shoah and the Outside

Publication ,  Journal Article
Hart, K
Published in: Word and Text: A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics
December 2015

The article analyses two sorts of disaster considered in Maurice Blanchot’s L’Écriture du désastre (1980): the Shoah and the approach of the Outside. Blanchot’s account of suffering is examined, as is the role that Blanchot’s reading of Robert Antelme’s L’Espece humaine (1947) plays in L’Écriture du désastre. Differences between concentration camps and extermination camps are detailed, and it is questioned whether fragmentary writing is capable of responding to the horror of the Shoah in an adequate manner.Articolul analizează cele două tipuri de dezastru din opera lui Maurice Blanchot inttitulată L’Écriture du désastre (1980): Holocaustul și abordarea Exteriorității. Articolul examinează expunerea suferinței și face referire la rolul pe care opera lui Robert Antelme, L’Espece humaine (1947), îl joacă în L’Écriture du désastre. Articolul detaliază diferențele dintre lagărele de concentrare și lagărele de exterminare și pune întrebarea dacă scrierea fragmentară este capabilă să răspundă ororilor Holocaustului într-o manieră adecvată.

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Published In

Word and Text: A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics

EISSN

2247-9163

ISSN

2069-9271

Publication Date

December 2015

Volume

5

Issue

1-2

Start / End Page

169 / 189

Publisher

Editura Universitǎţii Petrol-Gaze din Ploieşti
 

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Hart, K. (2015). 'The Absolute Event of History': The Shoah and the Outside. Word and Text: A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics, 5(1–2), 169–189.
Hart, Kevin. “'The Absolute Event of History': The Shoah and the Outside.” Word and Text: A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics 5, no. 1–2 (December 2015): 169–89.
Hart K. 'The Absolute Event of History': The Shoah and the Outside. Word and Text: A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics. 2015 Dec;5(1–2):169–89.
Hart, Kevin. “'The Absolute Event of History': The Shoah and the Outside.” Word and Text: A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics, vol. 5, no. 1–2, Editura Universitǎţii Petrol-Gaze din Ploieşti, Dec. 2015, pp. 169–89.
Hart K. 'The Absolute Event of History': The Shoah and the Outside. Word and Text: A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics. Editura Universitǎţii Petrol-Gaze din Ploieşti; 2015 Dec;5(1–2):169–189.

Published In

Word and Text: A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics

EISSN

2247-9163

ISSN

2069-9271

Publication Date

December 2015

Volume

5

Issue

1-2

Start / End Page

169 / 189

Publisher

Editura Universitǎţii Petrol-Gaze din Ploieşti