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    Événement et trauma dans Doctor Atomic de John Adams by Mathieu Duplay

    Published 2011-04-01
    “…John Adams’s 2005 opera Doctor Atomic, written in collaboration with Peter Sellars, is a case in point, not only because it deals with one of the most violent traumas in 20th‑century history—namely the nuclear test conducted at Los Alamos prior to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki—but also because, in addition to offering a potent meditation on the unthinkable, it reveals that all events, be they historical or aesthetic, call for new and as yet unformulated modes of thought ; as psychoanalysis suggests (sometimes in spite of itself), this is a clear sign of their traumatic nature.…”
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    The Firebombing of Tokyo: Views from the Ground by Cary Karacas, Bret Fisk

    Published 2011-01-01
    “…In stark contrast to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, however, historians and other scholars working in the English language have paid little attention to the tremendous societal impact - both immediate and long-lasting - of the destruction by firebombing of Japan's cities. …”
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    Genesis of a Poetics of Silence by Enora Lessinger

    Published 2018-11-01
    “…This short story prefigures very clearly Ishiguro’s later novels, and deals with themes dear to him: memory, family, trauma and guilt, the atomic bomb as an absent centre. It also presents a very clear picture of the genesis of his writing style, centred around a poetics of silence, both at the diegetic and narratorial levels.…”
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