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Dorian Stuber is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Hendrix College, USA where he teaches British modernism, psychoanalysis, and Holocaust literature. He has published essays on D. H. Lawrence, Todd Haynes, and, most recently, on fantasies of immediacy in Holocaust literature.
About the extermination strictly speaking there is nothing.
—Claude Lanzmann
o how marvelous
to be able to watch what one can’t see
—Jean-Luc Godard
Less than ten years separate the births of Claude Lanzmann (b. 1925), Jean-Luc Godard (b. 1930) and Susan Sontag (b. 1933), three of the twentieth century’s most significant theorists of the image. Each was a child or adolescent during the war who avoided, by accident of circumstance and birth, its worst depredations; each would be profoundly affected by images—real and imagined—of…
