Holocaust, Storytelling, Memory, Identity: David Grossman in California; See Under: LOVE: A personal view

And therefore from my perspective this is not a book about death, not about what the Nazis were interested in doing, and not about the engine of destruction, but about life, and what meaning there is to life after the Shoah.

After all that we now know about the human being, how is it possible to raise a child after the Shoah? And how is it possible to write poetry or prose? And how is it possible to love someone? Because I recognize for myself and also from other people the seductiveness of despair. To abandon the desire to live in a world where such things are possible.

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