... or conversational speech change shape in the context of testimony? What happens when Charlotte Delbo uses metaphor, simile, or personification to convey her experiences in Auschwitz? What happens to oral testimony when Holocaust survivors bear witness while the camera records parasemantic body language that swerves...

... documents. Historians are slowly coming to agree that survivor accounts are a crucial source of evidence for appreciating the unorthodox and unprecedented moral universe of the Holocaust. Writers as diverse as Charlotte Delbo, Imre Kertész, Arnošt Lustig, and Aharon Appelfeld find ways of stripping...

... widely in journals, on François Villon, Jean Bodel, Laclos, Levinas, Blanchot, Jabès and on poets of the deporta- tion and the Shoah, such as Charlotte Delbo, Micheline Maurel, Pierre Créange, and Bruno Durocher...

..., the canonical writers have achieved it. Patricia Yaeger’s account of Charlotte Delbo’s unsparing yet carefully com- posed scenes from life and death in the camps brings out that decorum, also found (I would add) in Ida Fink as a distancing with moral implications. 256 Poetics Today 27:2 The normal...

... Delbo’s The Measure of Our Days, who after the Holocaust is unable to communicate with her non-Holocaust-survivor husband. She is never really present when in his presence but only superficially addresses him. She can only relate to the others with whom she was in the camp and with whom she shared...

... Marbach am Neckar und im Stadthaus Zürich. Marbacher Kataloge No. 50. Marbach am Neckar:Deutsche Schillergesellschaft. Goertz, Karein K. 2001 “Body, Trauma, and the Rituals of Memory: Charlotte Delbo and Ruth Klüger,” in Epstein and Lefkowitz 2001 : 165 -85. Goldenson, Robert M. 1970...

... reawakening, nothing is clearer in these narratives than that Holocaust memory is an insomniac faculty, whose men- tal eyes have never slept Langer then proceeds to adapt from Charlotte Delbo the category of ‘‘deep memory’’ to analyze the video testimonies he has examined. Similarly, Shoshana Felman...