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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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