Beyond the Limit-Experience: French Poetry of the Deportation, 1940-1945

In this first critical study of the French-language poetry written in Nazi prisons, transit camps, and concentration camps, Gary D. Mole demonstrates how this poetry cannot simply be treated with reverence or as incidental historical documentation. Situating the poetry within the wider context of «concentration camp culture,» Mole engages in aesthetic and moral issues, offers extensive thematic readings – both of the reality transcribed by the poets and of spiritual and religious resistance t…