Holocaust as fiction
Subtitle: Bernhard Schlink's "Nazi" novels and their films
By: William Collins Donahue
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780230108073
Description: 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. With the help of wide-ranging reception data, the work of Holocaust scholars, as well as cultural and legal reflections on the concept of guilt, Donahue elucidates not only these works, but the wider critical climate that has fostered their success.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: "Mighty aphrodite" or, How to have it both ways; title: Resister after the fact : Schlink's Selb-trilogy and the culture of politically correct Holocaust literature; title: Soothing fictions : ambiguity as defense; title: "What would you have done?" : guilt as virtue; title: Fathers & sons: two kinds of second generation victim; title: The reader as an American novel; title: The Hollywood reader.