Seven responses to the Holocaust in American fiction
By: Stanislav Kolář.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Edice Universum
Publisher: Ostravská univerzita; Nakladatelství Tilia
Published: 2004
Place of publication: [Ostrava]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-195) and index.
Table of contents: title: Constituting the prototypical Holocaust novel : Edward Lewis Wallant's The pawnbroker; title: A strange boy in a strange land in a strange book : Jerzy Kosinski's The painted bird; title: Survival as a philosophical pilgrimage : Saul Bellow's Mr. Sammler's planet; title: Memory as a form of reality : Susan Fromberg Schaeffer's Anya; title: Macbeth in the Jewish ghetto : Leslie Epstein's King of the Jews; title: Denial and obsession : Cynthia Ozick's The shawl; title: The Holocaust as a comic book : Art Speigelman's Maus.