Holocaust as Fiction [electronic resource] : Bernhard Schlink's "Nazi" Novels and Their Films /
Donahue, W.author.
Holocaust as Fiction seeks to explain and critically evaluate the extraordinary success of Schlink's internationally acclaimed novel, The Reader , the widely read "Selb" detective trilogy, and two popular films based closely on his work.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : "Mighty aphrodite" or, How to have it both ways -- Resister after the fact : Schlink's Selb-trilogy and the culture of politically correct Holocaust literature -- Soothing fictions : ambiguity as defense -- "What would you have done?" : guilt as virtue -- Fathers and sons : two kinds of second generation victim -- The reader as an American novel -- The Hollywood reader.
Holocaust as Fiction seeks to explain and critically evaluate the extraordinary success of Schlink's internationally acclaimed novel, The Reader , the widely read "Selb" detective trilogy, and two popular films based closely on his work.
Schlink, Bernhard
Schlink, Bernhard
Literature, Modern-20th century.
European literature.
Fiction.
Literature-History and criticism.
Cultural studies.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
European Literature.
Fiction.
Literary History.
Cultural Studies.
Regional and Cultural Studies.