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David Jonathan Levin <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 9 Mar 1994 11:45:14 -0500
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Indeed, it was Adorno, but the quote is a bit thornier than people
recollect (after all, it's Adorno). There are actually 2 quotes: one,
the original statement, then a later (modified) retraction:
 
In 1949, in "Cultural Critique and Society" Adorno writes:
"To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. And this corrodes even the
knowledge of why it has become impossible to write poetry today."
 
Then, in *Negative Dialectics* he writes:
"Perennial suffering has as much right to expression as a tortured man has
to scream; hence it may have been wrong to say that after Auschwitz you
could no longer write poems."

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