Concentrationary Art

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<p> Largely forgotten over the years, the seminal work of French poet, novelist and camp survivor Jean Cayrol has experienced a revival in the French-speaking world since his death in 2005. His concept of a concentrationary artthe need for an urgent and constant aesthetic resistance to the continuing effects of the concentrationary universeproved to be a major influence for Hannah Arendt and other writers and theorists across a number of disciplines.<em>Concentrationary Art</em> presents the first translation into English of Jean Cayrols key essays on the subject, as well as the first book-length study of how we might situate and elaborate his concept of a Lazarean aesthetic in cultural theory, literature, cinema, music and contemporary art.</p>

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<p><strong>Max Silverman</strong> is Professor of Modern French Studies at the University of Leeds. He has written on cultural memory, representations of the Holocaust, and post-colonial theory and cultures. His publications include<a href="http://berghahnbooks.com/title/SilvermanPalimpsestic"><em>Palimpsestic Memory: The Holocaust and Colonialism in French and Francophone Fiction and Film</em></a> (2013). He co-edited<a href="http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/PollockConcentrationary"><em>Concentrationary Cinema: Aesthetics as Political Resistance in Alain Resnais's</em>Night and Fog</a> (2012).</p>

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