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...Holocaust Accounts...
Richardson's selection featured first-person accounts of three survivors of the Holocaust contrasted by the monologue of a German army oficer who said he was only guilty of following orders for his part in the atrocities...
...democratically elected government, he proposing a "Council of Emerging Issues," which would somehow be better at noticing long term trends than current public and private agencies, and would somehow make congressmen with two-year terms more likely to vote for long term projects. On preventing a nuclear holocaust. Hart merely proposes more negotiations with the Soviets on destabilizing weapons, and with Third World nations to stem the flow of the dangerous technology...
Like the earlier work, Ararat is a combination of prose and poetry, original material and translation, exploring the connections between consciousness and holocaust, sex and death. But whereas The White Hotel connected these themes with a pulse all its own, Ararat, like the Armenian landscape from which it is drawn, is a much drier work. The tremendous stream of poetry in The White Hotel, the sexually surreal "Don Giovanni" portion as well as the deafening violence of the Babi Yar testimony, collaborated to overwhelm the reader. This sensory overload created a flow or wave of feeling, which after...
Levin makes a noble and marginally successful attempt to deal with a somewhat hackneyed subject in a unique and sensitive manner. Instead of focusing on the survivors themselves and their inability to go on living, Simple Truths explores the plight of the descendants of holocaust survivors and how the legacy of guilt destroys their lives as well. Susan Warner, the novel's protagonist, is the daughter of two concentration camp survivors. Her father escaped death by working as a camp physician, a fact which Susan's mother, an embittered and vengeful woman, takes pleasure in tormenting him with. Neither...