Robert Antelme: humanity, community, testimony

by Crowley, Martin

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Title Statements

Full title :Robert Antelme : humanity, community, testimony / Martin Crowley.

Summary

"Best known for his 1947 memoir L'Espece humaine, Robert Antelme (1917-1990) is a central figure in the history of the European response to the Nazi concentration camps. In this first study in any language to be devoted to Antelme's work, Martin Crowley reveals the author's vital yet insufficiently recognized influence on recent thought in France and elsewhere about such questions as the nature of community and the indivisibility of humanity. He explores the conclusions Antelme drew from his deportation and his involvement with the post-war French left, and provides the first detailed textual criticism of L'Espece humaine. Examining the responses to the author's writings by such figures as Blanchot, Perec, Agamben, Nancy and Derrida, Crowley demonstrates Antelme's key contribution to the development of modern European thought."--Jacket.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2003.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Legenda
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2003.

The Physical Object

Description:xi, 111 pages ; : 22 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1900755807, 9781900755801
oclc:ocm52793603
LC Classification:D805.G3
Dewey Decimal:848.91409

Subjects

18.25 French literature Antelme, Robert Criticism, interpretation, etc Espèce humaine (Antelme, Robert) Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Prisonnie… Humanité (Morale) Humanity Personal narratives -- French World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narrat… World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and p…