A thousand darknesses : lies and truth in Holocaust fiction / Ruth Franklin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Franklin, Ruth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.

Jewish fiction--History and criticism.

Jewish fiction.

Truth in literature.

Memory in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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; A; B; C; D

EF; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-977977-5

1-282-88089-6

9786612880896

0-19-971830-X

OCLC:

680002639