Landscapes of the metropolis of death : reflections on memory and imagination
Title:
Landscapes of the metropolis of death : reflections on memory and imagination
Author:
Kulka, Otto Dov, author.
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Uniform Title:
Nofim mi-meṭropolin ha-maṿet. English
Edition:
First Harvard University Press edition.
Publication Information:
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013.
Physical Description:
xii, 127 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Summary:
The historian reveals his experiences as a child inmate at Auschwitz, presenting a personal and historical account of life at the camp and of the private mythology he constructed to understand his past.
Language:
English
Contents:
1. A prologue that could also be an epilogue -- 2. Between Theresienstadt and Auschwitz -- 3. The final liquidation of the 'family camp' -- Autumn 1944: Auschwitz, ghostly metropolis -- 5. Observations and perplexities about senes in the memory -- 6. Three poems from the brink of the gas chambers -- 7. Journey to the satellite city of the metropolis of death -- 8. Landscapes of a private mythology -- 9. Rivers which cannot be crossed and the 'Gate of the Law' -- 10. In search of history and memory : three chapters from the diaries -- 11. Dream: Jewish Prague and the Great Death -- 12. Doctor Mengele frozen in time -- 13. God's grieving.
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ISBN:
9780674072893
Format :
Book
