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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Franklin, Ruth
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 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.