Concentrationary Art : : Jean Cayrol, the Lazarean and the Everyday in Post-war Film, Literature, Music and the Visual Arts / / ed. by Griselda Pollock, Max Silverman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Cayrol, Jean,; Cousen, Benjamin Hannavy,; Ffrench, Patrick,; John, Matthew,; Pollock, Griselda,; Silverman, Max,
• HerausgeberIn: Pollock, Griselda,; Silverman, Max,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 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 art—the need for an urgent and constant aesthetic resistance to the continuing effects of the concentrationary universe—proved to be a major influence for Hannah Arendt and other writers and theorists across a number of disciplines. Concentrationary Art presents the first translation into English of Jean Cayrol’s 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Lazarus and the modern world -- Part I Lazarus among Us -- Lazarean Dreams -- Lazarean Literature -- Part II Situating Cayrol’s Lazarean -- CHAPTER 1 Lazarean Writing in Post-war France -- CHAPTER 2 The Perpetual Anxiety of Lazarus the gaze, the tomb and the body in the shroud -- Part III Reading with the Lazarean -- CHAPTER 3 Concentrationary Art and the Reading of Everyday Life (in)human spaces in Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) -- CHAPTER 4 Cinematic Work as Concentrationary Art in Laurent Cantet’s Ressources humaines (1999) -- CHAPTER 5 After Haunting a conceptualization of the Lazarean image -- CHAPTER 6 Lazarean Sound the autonomy of the auditory from Hanns Eisler (nuit et brouillard, 1955) to Susan Philipsz (night and fog, 2016) -- Concluding Remarks -- Index