Reading the Holocaust(English, Paperback, Clendinnen Inga)

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Reading the Holocaust(English, Paperback, Clendinnen Inga) is written by Clendinnen Inga and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0521012694 (ISBN 10) and 9780521012690 (ISBN 13).

More than fifty years after their occurrence, the events of the Holocaust remain for some of their most dedicated students as morally and intellectually baffling, as 'unthinkable', as they were at their first rumouring. Reading the Holocaust, first published in 2002, challenges that bafflement, and the demoralization that attends it. Exploring the experience of the Holocaust from both the victims' and the perpetrators' points of view, as it appears in histories and memoirs, films and poems, Inga Clendinnen seeks to dispel what she calls the 'Gorgon effect': the sickening of imagination and curiosity and the draining of the will that afflict so many of us when we try to look squarely at the persons and processes implicated in the Holocaust. Searching, eloquent and elegantly written, her book is an uncompromising attempt to extract the comprehensible from the unthinkable.