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Résumé :
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Starting with the fear that culture might not include knowledge on the Holocaust - a fear which exceeds horror, life, death, and the desire for justice connected with it - the author defines the attempts to deal with and remember the Holocaust in literature as a subculture, as having produced an emotional community, tied together by a spirit which could be called cultic, and which braces itself against the threat of forgetfulness. With the help of literary documents written by survivors, Kertész critically investigates totalitarianism, anitsemitism Auschwitz and survival, and finally asks whether the Holocaust may in itself produce values. He finally asserts that these values brought about by the Holocaust came into existence because of the immeasurable suffering which led to immeasurable knowledge and thus holds an immeasurable moral value.
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