| Abstract | Pronouncements on the poetics of (or after) Auschwitz tend to establish a symbolic geography in which the camp represents both center and periphery: it constitutes the very center of evil but is located in a realm just beyond the borders of civilized speech and behavior. By referring to a wide range of literature, film, critical and theoretical discussions, Ezrahi tries to demonstrate the diffusion of dynamic or relativist position approaches in representing Auschwitz in postwar culture at large, with allowances for the particular semantics of each interpretative community.
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