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共同体的焚毁：奥斯维辛前后的小说
(us) J. Hillis Miller
"After Auschwitz, even writing poetry was barbaric." This book challenges Adorno's famous remarks about aesthetic production after the Holocaust, arguing for the possibility of literature bearing witness to extreme collective and individual experiences. Miller constructs a Benjaminian heterogeneous constellation between various texts and realities. From the idea of community in Stevens' poetry to the community theory and related discussions expounded by philosophers such as Jean-Luc Nancy, Derrida, and Deleuze, from Kafka's novels to Holocaust-related novels, to Morrison's "Beloved", from the domestic changes in Germany when the Nazis came to power to the situation in the United States in recent years, Miller analyzes the main ideas about community, carefully reads novels written before and after Auschwitz, analyzes the worrying domestic and international situations in the United States, and interprets the mechanisms and contradictions of community with the vivid emotional qualities of literature. It not only bears witness to the past Holocaust and slavery, but also reminds us to shoulder the heavy responsibility of personal choice at all times.
"After Auschwitz, even writing poetry was barbaric." This book challenges Adorno's famous remarks about aesthetic production after the Holocaust, arguing for the possibility of literature bearing witness to extreme collective and individual experiences. Miller constructs a Benjaminian heterogeneous constellation between various texts and realities. From the idea of community in Stevens' poetry to the community theory and related discussions expounded by philosophers such as Jean-Luc Nancy, Derrida, and Deleuze, from Kafka's novels to Holocaust-related novels, to Morrison's "Beloved", from the domestic changes in Germany when the Nazis came to power to the situation in the United States in recent years, Miller analyzes the main ideas about community, carefully reads novels written before and after Auschwitz, analyzes the worrying domestic and international situations in the United States, and interprets the mechanisms and contradictions of community with the vivid emotional qualities of literature. It not only bears witness to the past Holocaust and slavery, but also reminds us to shoulder the heavy responsibility of personal choice at all times.