Beyond guilt and atonement

It is the experiences and reflections of an intellectual who survived the concentration camps of Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Bergen-Belsen that form the backdrop for these essayistic texts. "Whoever succumbed to torture can no longer feel at home in the world," writes Améry, who was born in Vienna and later chose to take his own life. These "struggles for coping of an overwhelmed individual," which made Jean Améry suddenly famous and to which Peter Matic gives a voice here, pose unsettling and probing questions about the human condition and the circumstances of life. They are among the central texts of German-language Holocaust literature. Reading by Peter Matic 1 mp3-CD | approx. 4 h 5 min.