Concentrationary Art

<p> Largely forgotten over the years the seminal work of French poet novelist and camp survivor Jean Cayrol has experienced a revival in the French-speaking world since his death in 2005. His concept of a concentrationary art-the need for an urgent and constant aesthetic resistance to the continuing effects of the concentrationary universe-proved to be a major influence for Hannah Arendt and other writers and theorists across a number of disciplines. <em>Concentrationary Art</em> presents the first translation into English of Jean Cayrol's key essays on the subject as well as the first book-length study of how we might situate and elaborate his concept of a Lazarean aesthetic in cultural theory literature cinema music and contemporary art.</p>