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• W1567233962 abstract "J. Hillis Miller. The Conflagration of Community: Fiction before and after Auschwitz. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 2011. 329 pp. $29.00 USD. According to J. Hillis Miller, The Conflagration of Community: Action before and after constructs a Benjaminian constellation (xii) which juxtaposes five topics. They include Jean-Luc Nancy's reflections on community after Auschwitz (from which book's title derives); three novels by Franz Kafka that Miller believes foreshadow four novels about Holocaust written by authors at varying degrees of distance from it; and Toni Morrison's Beloved (chosen because it examines the feature of American history that most resonates with Auschwitz) (xii-xiii). Miller's final topic differs from others in that it is neither philosophical nor literary. It is an based on the chilling resemblance between what happened in Germany and adjacent countries in years leading up to Nazi takeover and what has happened recently in United States and as a result of its (xiii). This topic also differs from others in that it is not highlighted in any of headings of book's four parts. Nevertheless, Miller's outrage at contemporary American actions is so intense that resemblance he finds between what led to Holocaust in Germany and what has happened recently in United States resonates throughout to such an extent that it often appears to be book's primary topic, disrupting discussion of all others. A representative example is a paragraph that begins by addressing why Kafka resisted finishing his novels but quickly moves to analogies Miller sees between Kafka's protagonists and Iraqis indefinitely incarcerated, interrogated, and tortured at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, or in some secret prison abroad (50). Knowing that readers may object to his analogies, Miller provides a cautionary note: Analogies ... are not identities, but juxtaposition of 'somewhat analogous events' may help to understand both sides of analogy (xii). This defence of his project is persuasive, but there are other ways of providing understanding that Miller avoids. Although he reads Kafka's work for its premonitions of while simultaneously acknowledging that this reading might seem perverse given that Kafka died in 1924 (39), Miller chooses a book title that does not foreground that so preoccupies him. He insists that Kafka's writings are proleptic in that they anticipate Shoah (271), but what The Conflagration of Community may actually demonstrate is how much readers post-Holocaust bring to their readings. As Miller admits, when he first wrote about Kafka nearly fifty years ago, his tone was very different. But having lost his cool, amused insouciance because he genuinely believes that Americans today live in a nightmarish Kafka-like world, he reads Kafka very differently now (112). The epigraph to his preface is Theodor Adorno's famous prohibition on poetry after Auschwitz; The Conflagration of Community responds to Adorno by demonstrating not just that reading fiction matters even more after Auschwitz, but also how reading fiction after Auschwitz, we cannot avoid bringing our post-Holocaust knowledge to our reading of earlier works. At one point, Miller invokes a juggling metaphor for his approach: have in my comments on [Ian McEwan's] Black Dogs juggled three of four balls I am trying to keep in air in this book: question of whether a novel can testify to Shoah; question of narrative form in relation to whether fiction can be testimony; question of our relation today to Shoah (166). He then adds that subject of community--presumably fourth ball--will be addressed in next chapter. Unfortunately, sometimes The Conflagration of Community reads as though Miller is juggling too many balls. What else accounts for his need to keep reminding his readers what his subject is? …" @default.
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