Sarah Kofman was a contemporary of Jacques Derrida, a French philosopher who was a daughter of the Holocaust. Her father was murdered in Auschwitz, and she grew up without understanding her mother.
An admirer of Nietzsche, she constructs her texts with whirlwinds of words, says Bruno de Monès. K ofman read a lot and in depth, getting lost in the texts of her favorite authors, basically Nietzsche and Freud, he says. The death of his father meant that he was at the mercy of his mother and sister, he adds.