Gedenken ist vergessen: Paradigmen, Probleme und Paradoxien literarischer Erinnerung an die Shoah
Reminiscence Has Been Forgotten: Paradigms, Problems and Paradoxes of the Literary Memory of the Shoah

Summary/Abstract: This article depicts those literary and historical-memorial trends which, since the end of the World War II, have shaped the methods of approaching the problem of the Shoah in literature and which young generations of writers from Germany and Poland are critical of, even today. In the Introduction, the article takes into account the main paradigms of the literary discourse about the Shoah, i.e. the ban on any presentations of the topic and the topos of its ineffability; it then addresses the methodological problems that arise from this decree of silence and from the individual and moral need to provide testimony. The paradoxes of shaping literary memory are shown in the final part of the article, based on the tale by Doron Rabinovici entitled Gedenken ist vergessen [Reminiscence has been forgotten].

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