Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Encountering H. G. Adler - Julia Creet, Sara R. Horowitz, and Amira Bojadzija-Dan
Part I | Writing a Life
The World of My Father’s Memory Writing: The Gesamtkunstwerk of H. G. Adler - Jeremy Adler
The Self Positioned, The (De)posited Self, The Soul Released: The Uses of Biography in H. G. Adler’s Shoah Trilogy - Peter Filkins
Shaping Survival through Writing: H. G. Adler’s Correspondence with Bettina Gross, 1945–1947 - Sven Kramer
Part II | Contexts
Recovered Gems: Neglect and Recovery of Holocaust Fiction - Sara R. Horowitz
H. G. Adler and First-Person History - Omer Bartov
Holocaust Fact and Holocaust Fiction: The Dual Vision of H. G. Adler - Lawrence L. Langer
Part III | Fictions
From Panorama to The Journey: Repetition and Intensification of Traumatic Memory - Amira Bojadzija-Dan
Double Exposure in the Absence of Verbs: Repossessing the Image of Self in H. G. Adler’s The Journey - Emily Budick
A Dialectic of the Deictic: Pronouns and Persons in H. G. Adler’s The Journey - Julia Creet
“I Have Lost Myself”: H. G. Adler’s Novel The Wall and the Damaged Identity of the Survivor - Ruth Vogel-Klein
Part IV | Genres
Prague Circles: H. G. Adler’s Kafkaesque Hope - Helen Finch
“Die Grenzen des Sagbaren”: Toward a Political Philology in H. G. Adler’s Reflections on Language - Lynn L. Wolff
“Here I Stand”: The Poetry of H. G. Adler - Katrin Kohl
Part V | Encounters
An Imaginative Dialogue between H. G. Adler and Psychoanalysis: Aesthetic Themes of Uncertainty, Transformation, and Binding - Deborah P. Britzman
The Archive and the Image: H. G. Adler’s Snapshots of Traumatic History - Dorota Glowacka
Reading H. G. Adler (Tangentially) - Leslie Morris
Major Works by H. G. Adler
Contributors
Index