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Article: Ethics and Remembrance in the Poetry of Nelly Sachs and Rose Auslander.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2002
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Ethics and Remembrance in the Poetry of Nelly Sachs and Rose Auslander. By KATHRIN M. BOWER. (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics and Culture) Rochester, NY: Camden House. 2000. x + 280 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]; $55.
This fascinating but flawed book is the first comparative study in English of two distinguished German-Jewish writers who survived the Nazi genocide, and whose poetry bears witness to the double bonds of survival and memory. The study teases out the often conflicting tensions in the work of the two writers: the desire for recuperation of the 'multiply lost', and the longing for transcendence, but also goes further to argue for a common 'ethics of ...