A collective monograph on the Holocaust in Czech and Central European literature was published by Akropolis in April 2011. Very little attention has been paid to the artistic representation of the Shoah in literature and film in this country, and the book is a follow-up to the unique publication Holocaust in Czech, Slovak and Polish Literature (ed. J. Holý, 2007). The studies by four authors examine the Shoah in literature from different angles, both in overview (Jiří Holý) and in more detail, from the point of view of individual issues (the memorial work of culture – Petr Málek, the Shoah from the perspective of the guilty or the traumatic nature of the return – Jiří Holý) and authorial personalities and poetics (Michael Špirit focuses on Josef Škvorecký, Filip Tomáš on the work of Arnošt Lustig and the unjustly neglected Jiří R. Pick). They agree that this is a fundamental topic whose artistic representation also affects the value issues of contemporary life. Describing and understanding these seemingly incommunicable experiences and events that are hardly comprehensible to reason remains a constant challenge for art and scholarly research, regardless of the distance of time. Published in cooperation with the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague.

Publisher Akropolis.