Title: The culture of forgetting
First published: 1996
Description: Robert Manne’s The Culture of Forgetting (1996) examines the scandal surrounding Helen Darville, who wrote as Helen Demidenko. Her award‑winning novel The Hand That Signed the Paper was later revealed to rest on a fabricated Ukrainian identity and controversial portrayals of the Holocaust. Manne’s critique explores the ethical responsibilities of writers, the dangers of literary deception, and the cultural impact of the affair on Australian memory and Holocaust representation.
Subjects: History, Literary forgeries and mystifications, Plagiarism, World War, 1939-1945, Literature and the war, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
Places: Ukraine, Australia
People: Helen Darville (1971-)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PR9619.3.D255 H335 1996