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Terrence Des Pres (1939–1987)

Teoksen The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps tekijä

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Tekijän teokset

Praises and Dispraises (1988) 29 kappaletta
Writing into the World (1991) 17 kappaletta

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Vesimies (1972) — Jälkisanat, eräät painokset2,468 kappaletta
Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose [Norton Critical Edition] (1993) — Avustaja — 318 kappaletta
Maus Now: Selected Writing (2022) — Avustaja — 38 kappaletta
THOMAS MCGRATH: LIFE AND THE POEM (1987) — Toimittaja — 5 kappaletta

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Expertly written. I appreciated very much the inclusion of the Gulags in the discussion which too often focuses solely on the Nazis. No desire ever to read it again, however.

A point made in the final chapters is that the concentration camps were the perfect embodiment of our concept of Hell -- I think for all the horror of the camps that this point is overstated. Depictions of Hell from medieval times are of incessant torture *for the very sake* of exacting suffering on the damned. My knowledge of the camps is that the horrors there sprang from, among other things: a closed environment with no consequences for the often capricious evils perpetrated by guards, near-total neglect of the inmates' basic biological needs encouraged by a policy from higher up that anyone in a camp was subhuman, and the intentional dehumanization of inmates in order to, as Des Pres points out, "make it easier for the guards to do their jobs."

It is difficult to overstate the suffering described in these pages. But to say that nothing worse is capable of being imagined is to do just that. One example is to be an isolated sex slave locked in a cellar, with no one to lean on or call for help to, subjected to torture by a captor who tortures you for the very sake of bringing about torture (and not the sadistic randomness of the often drunken shootings perpetrated by Nazis in the camps). The latter is much more like Hell than the effects of privation, however extreme.
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chuff | 1 muu arvostelu | Feb 28, 2022 |
An in depth look at the psychology of those who survived the death camps of the Nazi Holocaust. The book is a collection of Des Pres research as well as numerous first person accounts of survivors. Told in gruesome detail, the book is highly educational and extremely interesting, although not for the squeamish.
 
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jdiament | 1 muu arvostelu | Aug 17, 2009 |
The poets' job is to blame and praise; rhyme the rats to death; give hope to the tribe. Praise is a solid whole which ties the poets William Butler Yeats, Bertolt Brecht, Breyten Breytenbach, Thomas McGrath and Adrienne Rich into the struggle between Antigone and Creon, the individual against the power.
 
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DromJohn | Mar 19, 2009 |

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