![]() ![]() ![]() I think that the poetry this quote expresses covers the ‘implications’ for basing the Jacques Presser figuration upon this. ![]() Even the words resist offering themselves to the writer and historian. In terms of his vision and experience of them. ‘The very words threaten to strike’ is a quote from ‘De Nacht der Girondijnen’ (The Night of the Girondines) (1957) by historian, writer and poet Jacob (Jacques) Presser (1899 -1970).Īmong other things, Jacques Presser wrote the magnum opus ‘Ondergang, De vervolging en verdelging van het Nederlandse Jodendom 1940-1945’ (‘Doom, the persecution and annihilation of Dutch Jewry’) about the history of Jewish persecution in the Netherlands in the Second World War.įor the Jacques Presser pedestal I chose the phrase ‘the very words threaten to strike’ because the sentence may be viewed as characterising the impossibility of recording the horrors of war in writing. ![]()
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