Holocaust

One evening, a policeman came and told him... So begins Charles Reznikoff's cycle of poems, Holocaust. It could be the beginning of Kafka's Metamorphosis (One evening, as Gregor Samsa was waking...) and what follows in Renikoff is certainly a metamorhosis of the transformation of certain human beings into something lower than monstrous insects to whom all trace and privilege of humanity is denied. But Kafka's world was metaphor, it was imagined. Reznikoff's was a historical record. In fact it wa...

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