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A thousand darknesses [electronic resource]

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What is the difference between writing a novel about the Holocaust and fabricating a memoir? Do narratives about the Holocaust have a special obligation to be 'truthful'--that is, faithful to the facts of history? Or is it okay to lie in such works? In her provocative study A Thousand Darknesses, Ruth Franklin investigates these questions as they arise in the most significant works of Holocaust fiction, from Tadeusz Borowski's Auschwitz stories to Jonathan Safran Foer's postmodernist family history. Franklin argues that the memory-obsessed culture of the last few decades has led us to mistaken

Title A thousand darknesses [electronic resource] : lies and truth in Holocaust fiction / Ruth Franklin.
Publisher Oxford
New York : Oxford University Press
Creation Date 2010
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Contents
Introduction: The Anvil and the Crucible
PART ONE: THE WITNESSES
1 Angry Young Man: Tadeusz Borowski
2 The Alchemist: Primo Levi
3 The Kabbalist in the Death Camps: Elie Wiesel
4 The Antiwitness: Piotr Rawicz
5 The Bird Painter: Jerzy Kosinski
6 Child of Auschwitz: Imre Kertész
PART TWO: THOSE WHO CAME AFTER
7 A Story for You: Thomas Keneally, Steven Spielberg
8 The Ghost Writer: Wolfgang Koeppen
9 The Effect of the Real: W. G. Sebald
10 Willing Executioners: Bernhard Schlink
11 Identity Theft: The Second Generation
Conclusion: The Third Generation
Index
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Extent 1 online resource (269 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010715437505171
MARC RECORDS
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