Giacomo Loi

There is no Analogy in History: On the Use of Myth in Early Hebrew Holocaust Fiction

This paper explores how classical myth served as a narrative tool in two Holocaust-themed short stories by Aharon Appelfeld and Michal Govrin, allowing the writers to grapple with the unrepresentable horror of the Shoah. Examining Aharon Appelfeld’s Odyssean reference in the short story ‘Bertha’ and Michal Govrin’s Aes...