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The context in which frankl wrote this was as a concentration camp survivor, quite different than the postmodern capitalist lends you seem to be evaluating it through

Notably, man’s search for meaning was 1946 iirc and postmodernism didn’t really ascend until some time later



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What is that meant to establish?


which concentration camp survivors wrote communist books?


When reading this question I just happened to recall a Soviet writer, who was Jewish, who I think did see the concentration camps and write about them but wasn't a victim of them.

But, this person didn't write in favor of communism despite being a writer in the Soviet Union. Their books were censored.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Grossman

I found his book "Everything Flows" to be extremely interesting. It is a fictional account of a Soviet gulag survivor returning to his home, and reflecting on the people he meets and his life.

https://www.amazon.com/Everything-Flows-Review-Books-Classic...

I think it's much better than "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich".


See: they weren't made famous,

History is written by the victors, which says nothing of its accuracy.




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