Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust: The Chain of Memory.
by Christopher Bigsby
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 052186934X
- ISBN 13
- 9780521869348
- Seller
-
Aldeburgh, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Cambridge University Press, 2006. Hardcover Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. vii, 407pp. Original black boards with gilt spine titles. A fine and unread copy in lightly shelf worn dust jacket.
Synopsis
This is a meditation on memory and on the ways in which memory has operated in the work of writers for whom the Holocaust was a defining event. It is also an exploration of the ways in which fiction and drama have attempted to approach a subject so resistant to the imagination. Beginning with W. G. Sebald, for whom memory and the Holocaust were the roots of a special fascination, Bigsby moves on to consider those writers Sebald himself valued, including Arthur Miller, Anne Frank, Primo Levi and Peter Weiss, and those whose lives crossed in the bleak world of the camps, in fact or fiction. The book offers a chain of memories. It sets witness against fiction, truth against wilful deceit. It asks the question who owns the Holocaust - those who died, those who survived to bear witness, those who appropriated its victims to shape their own necessities.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Robin Summers Books Limited
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- C167794
- Title
- Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust: The Chain of Memory.
- Author
- Christopher Bigsby
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 052186934X
- ISBN 13
- 9780521869348
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 2006
- Pages
- 416
Terms of Sale
Robin Summers Books Limited
14 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 14 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Robin Summers Books Limited
Biblio member since 2024
Aldeburgh, Suffolk
About Robin Summers Books Limited
Providing a wide variety of out of print and rare books
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
How to tell if a signature is genuine
Author's signatures can undoubtedly increase the value of a rare book or first edition. The more scarce the book is, the more an autograph adds to its value. But how to tell if the signature is real? Find out how you can avoid common pitfalls in identifying an author's signature.
Collecting History of the Circus in America
Step right up! Take a look at the center ring, where you will see displayed the most amazing, most colorful series of history books that the world has ever seen! Right this way, folks…
