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• W320620439 abstract "DANIEL MENDELSOHN'S THE LOST: A SEARCH FOR SIX OF SIX MILLION, NEW YORK: HARPERCOLLINS, 2006 At center of front cover of Daniel Mendelsohn's prizewinning memoir, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, space customarily reserved for prominent display of book's title and author, there is, instead, blank. The dazzling whiteness of overexposed image, whose content is impossible to make out, seeps into and blurs edges of surrounding sepia photographs. As result, it is not so much readable images as glaring absence of central photograph that piques our attention by its refusal to reveal that which it so conspicuously obscures. It was such an intriguing and irritating lacuna (42) that led Mendelsohn to undertake and embark on systematic and extensive search for unknown truth about fate of his maternal great-uncle Schmiel's family who perished in Holocaust. Culminating in climactic discovery about his ancestors, Mendelsohn's highly complex and intensely engaging memoir chronicles author's worldwide quest for any information that would cast light on lives and deaths of Schmiel Yaeger's family. A gripping and moving account of Mendelsohn's determined pursuit of his family's history, The Lost is also an eloquent meditation on storytelling, remembering, and bearing witness to that we have not experienced. Having grown up under spell of his maternal grandfather's stories about life in small town of Bolechow, home to generations of Yaeger family, Mendelsohn had spent his youth trying to untangle and order confounding family that would clarify his connection to elderly Yiddish-speaking relatives, some of whom would begin to cry every time he entered room. Yet even after years of meticulous research, Mendelsohn, now classicist in his forties, still confronts tantalizing gap that had first motivated his relentless pursuit of his family's complicated past: no one knows what had happened to family of Schmiel, lost Yaeger brother whom young Daniel so uncannily resembles. Just when Mendelsohn contemplates abandoning his search, a small number of strange coincidences, odd reminders of Bolechow, or Schmiel, or [his] family's specific past (43) make him consider the possibility that dead were not so much lost as waiting (43). Wryly observing that the return to ancestral shtetl was by now . . . cliche (109), Mendelsohn self-consciously positions his project within, as Eva Hoffman terms it, the growing genre of what might be called second-generation quests-attempts by children of immigrants or Holocaust survivors, to track down and apprehend remote and often traumatic ancestral history (2007). What distinguishes The Lost from these texts, however, is not only generational difference-Mendelsohn belongs to generation of grandchildren of Holocaust survivors-but also his relationship to people whose story he sets out to reconstruct. Whereas second-generation memoirists quest for their parents' life stories, Mendelsohn searches for unknown truth about Schmiel Yaeger's family, distant relatives whom he has never personally known. The extraordinary structural intricacy of The Lost inscribes it into classical Greek tradition embraced by storytellers who, like Mendelsohn's beloved grandfather, resisted obvious strategy that would seamlessly progress from beginning to end. Accordingly, Mendelsohn organizes his into vast circling loops, so that each incident, each character . . . ha[s] its own mini-story, story within story, inside narrative (32). Playing on exceptional dexterity such an approach requires, Mendelsohn adds yet another layer of complexity to his text by framing each section with commentaries of individual parashot from Book of Genesis that carefully explicate and relate key stories from Torah to events Mendelsohn narrates. …" @default.
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