Beyond Despair Quotes

“A rich body of testimony has been written about the Holocaust, the testimony of the survivor, and it embodies their whole psychology: haste, inarticulateness, and the lack of all introspection. It is as if what had happened only happened outside them. Their spiritual reckoning, if there is such a thing, was principally concerned with conclusions about society, not with the realm of the soul...Such writing must be read with caution, so that one sees not only what is in it, but also, and essentially, what is lacking in it.”
― Aharon Appelfeld, Beyond Despair: Three Lectures and a Conversation With Philip Roth