Anne Frank is Dead and is Living in New York
Cynthia Ozick speculates whether it would have been better if Anne Frank’s Diary would have remained lost, thus preventing the creation of the diarist’s canonization as a saint in Jewish-American culture. Similar criticism can be traced in the “What-if” novels The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth (1979)...
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| Aineistotyyppi: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Kieli: | Anglais |
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Teksty Drugie
2024
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| Linkit: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Yhteenveto: | Cynthia Ozick speculates whether it would have been better if Anne Frank’s Diary would have remained lost, thus preventing the creation of the diarist’s canonization as a saint in Jewish-American culture. Similar criticism can be traced in the “What-if” novels The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth (1979) and Shalom Auslander’s Hope: A Tragedy (2012), that revive Frank and place her in America. Although Roth’s diarist is an attractive young brunette and Auslander’s is a gray-haired elderly woman, both conclude that for the benefit of their American public and Frank’s major role in the “Shoah business” she had better stay dead. |
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