S. Felman’s scientific contributions

... 34; 70; 73), often wrenched out of context and, hence, erroneously interpreted. Huge debates followed (see Felman, 1992;Luckhurst, 2008;Ball, 2008;Huyssen, 2005;Weissberg, 2001, among others; see also Wolosky, 2001, p. 655, and n. 5, where Celan's response, "we know at last where to seek the barbarians," is quoted as evidence). Adorno softened his initial remark in Aesthetic Theory, where he credited Celan for wanting "to speak of the most extreme horror through silence" ( , p. 143) and in "Commitment" (1962( /1980; later on he retracted his slightly reworded versions in Negative Dialectics (1973/2004, p. 362), admitting that "perennial suffering has as much right to expression as a tortured man has to scream; hence it may have been wrong to say that after Auschwitz you could no longer write poems." ...

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Representations of the Romanian Holocaust in testimonial literature and films: from trivialization, denial to working through the past (part 2)