![]() ![]() ![]() in them, the language of our sickness was created.” 1 A corresponding effort to understand and explain the Holocaust has proceeded by analogy, pointing out alleged resemblances between what happened in the death camps and other atrocities that have occurred in modern times, or between the Nazi machinery of destruction and the real and sometimes imagined structure of modern life in general. Alvarez wrote in these pages some twelve years ago, specifically about the impact of the Holocaust on literature, the concentration camps “have become symbols of our own inturned nihilism. ![]() Throughout every facet of contemporary culture the Holocaust-the systematic murder of six million European Jews under Hitler-has become the particular image for the barbarism of our time, the modern paradigm of man’s inhumanity to man. ![]()
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