Abstract: As with most world literature, Holocaust literature has regularly invoked imagery of the heavenly bodies: the sun, the moon, and especially the stars. “Our eyes register the light of dead stars,” begins André Schwarz-Bart’s formidable 1959 Holocaust novel, The Last of the Just. Premised on the laws of light and optics, this opening sentence sets forth the novel’s memorial mandate: to bring before the reader’s (and narrator’s?) eyes the light that continues to radiate from the Holocaust’s no longer living victims.
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-11-14
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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