And although the circumstances matter greatly, another explanation might be found in a characteristic common to both Binjamin Wilkomirski and Bruno Dossekker. Its signifier, then, is none but literature. Whether or not the factual data was intentionally distorted, the reader suffers a lesser recapitulation of the kind of violence done to Wilkomirski. Initially, we read the book as part of a community witnessing an important addition to our shared history. We are also forced to face the blurred line between all nonfiction and fiction.
All history is imagined and reconstructed repeatedly.
Now, like him, we have to reconstruct the story, this time according to our own desires. Powers of horror. In The portable Kristeva . The man with two heads. Granta , Summer Issue, 7-65.