La mise en mots de l’innommable

Abstract

After a long period characterized by silence and a feeling of nagging guilt amidst American intellectuals, the authors of scholarly literature on the Holocaust, those writing fiction and poetry in traditionally representational forms as well as graphic artists have been questioning the way the Catastrophe should be articulated. They have searched for a literary manner capable of expressing the Disaster but are baffled by the lack of a language to reconstruct it.