EAN: 9783110256727

NELLY SACHS - ELAINE MARTIN GEBUNDEN

Nelly Sachs. The Poetics of Silence and the Limits of Representation examines the poetry of the
Nobel Prize-winning German Jewish poet Nelly Sachs. It firstly shifts established patterns of
reception by analysing the author s reception in East and West Germany after the war and the
role she came to play in the Federal Republic as a representative Poet of Reconciliation . The
study then situates Sachs work within the framework of the debate surrounding the
representation of the Holocaust by means of a thorough exposition of the aporia at the heart of
Theodor Adorno s writings on post-Holocaust art. It demonstrates by close reading how Sachs
work is itself marked by this aporetic struggle and exposes in particular the aesthetic means
by which Sachs renders this aporetic tension legible in her poetry through her use of  for
example  prosopopoeia  her recasting of traditional metaphors and her reversal of biblical
archetypes. The primary question addressed is whether Sachs poetry  in spite of the fact that
it thematises the impossibility of adequate representation  has representational value  or
whether her work is bereft of concrete  representational meaning as a result of the often
fragmented nature of her writing. In particular  the author confronts those critics who see in
Sachs work elements of consolation  reconciliation  or redemption in a transcendental realm  in
favour of a reading that regards her work as permeated with the concrete events of the
Holocaust and irreconcilably opposed to any notion of a religious sense-making and redemptive
paradigm.

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