A thousand darknesses : lies and truth in Holocaust fiction /
What is the difference between writing a novel about the Holocaust and fabricating a memoir? Are Holocaust writings, by their very nature, exempt from criticism and interpretation? Do narratives about the Holocaust have a special obligation to be truthful--that is, faithful to the facts of history?...
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Oxford ; New York :
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2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Angry young man / Tadeusz Borowski
- The alchemist / Primo Levi
- The kabbalist in the death camps / Elie Wiesel
- The anti-witness / Piotr Rawicz
- The art of the self / Jerzy Kosinski (or the prankster)?
- Child of Auschwitz / Imre Kertesz
- A story for you / Thomas Keneally, Steven Spielberg
- The ghost writer / Wolfgang Koeppen
- The effect of the real / W.G. Sebald
- Willing executioners / Bernhard Schlink
- Identity theft : The second generation
- The third generation.