Magic realism in Holocaust literature : troping the traumatic real Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction The dream of the end of the world: magic realism knowledge and Holocaust history in Jonathan Safran Foers Everything is illuminated Magic realism and dialogic postmemory: David Grossmans See under: love Trauma and the grotesque body: D.M. Thomass The white hotel The light of dead stars: magic realist time in André Schwarz Barts The last of the just Into eternitys certain breadth: ambivalent escape in Markus Zusaks The book thief Conclusion