Foregone Conclusions (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Michael André Bernstein
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: History, Racism, Authors or writers, Literature, Victims, Nazism or Nazis, Holocaust, Jewish, Judaism, Biography
Michael Bernstein’s Foregone Conclusions: Against Apocalyptic History delivers many insights about several extremely sensitive topics. He focuses on fictional works about what he prefers to call the Shoah, the murder of European Jews in German concentration camps during World War II, and related topics. Unfortunately for the reader, several of Bernstein’s stylistic idiosyncracies often obfuscate the subtle and elusive points he tries to make. Many of Bernstein’s sentences are eight or more lines in length. One paragraph on pages 115-116 begins with a sentence in...
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