The rights of history and the rights of imagination

Ozick, Cynthia
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Title The rights of history and the rights of imagination.
Original Library/publisher Obliged by Memory - Literature, Religion, Ethics
Collection of Essays Honoring Elie Wiesel's Seventieth Birthday. Edited by Steven T. Katz and Alan Rosen. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006
Кому принадлежит Анна Франк? Эссе. Синтия Озик
составитель Л. Беспалова. Москва: Текст, 2012
Host Item Commentary 107,3 (1999) 24-27
Description Discusses the relationship between fiction and history in regard to the Holocaust. Notes the problem with fiction which claims to be true, when imposture "escapes the bounds of fiction and invades life"
it is then defined as a hoax. In this case, the imaginative creation generally permitted the author of fiction is immoral
"the argument for fictional autonomy collapses and the rights of history can begin to urge their own force." Also faults fictional works about the Holocaust, like "Sophie's Choice" by William Styron and "The Reader" by Bernhard Schlink, which (intentionally or not) deflect readers' attention from the destruction of the Jews of Europe and those responsible for it. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
On the question of literary works which falsify history, relating to the Holocaust.
Appeared also in "Obliged by Memory" (2006) 3-18.
Appeared in Russian as "Права истории и права воображения" in "Кому принадлежит Анна Франк? Эссе" (2012) 7-28.
Language English
Russian
National Library system number 990005205090705171
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