- What argument about European identity did Rolland build across the ten volumes of Jean-Christophe?
Holocaust and War Literature
Literature bearing witness to war, genocide, and atrocity.
- How did Nelly Sachs escape Nazi Germany in 1940, and who helped arrange her rescue?
- How did Nelly Sachs use biblical imagery and poetic restraint to write about the Holocaust?
- Why did Elie Wiesel wait a decade before writing about his experience in Auschwitz and Buchenwald?
- How did Night move from a book publishers were slow to embrace to one of the most widely read Holocaust testimonies?
- What did the Nobel Committee mean by honouring Wiesel for the argument that indifference to suffering is not a neutral position?
- Why does Wiesel treat memory as a moral obligation rather than a sentiment?
- How did Rigoberta Menchú Tum bring international attention to the violence in Guatemala?
- What does témoignage mean, and how did it distinguish MSF from traditional relief organisations?
- Why does the narrator of Kertész's Fatelessness describe the concentration camps with detachment rather than horror?