Franklin, Ruth.

A thousand darknesses : lies and truth in Holocaust fiction / Ruth Franklin. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011. - x, 256 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Angry young man / Tadeusz Borowski -- The alchemist / Primo Levi -- The kabbalist in the death camps / Elie Wiesel -- The anti-witness / Piotr Rawicz -- The art of the self / Jerzy Kosinski (or the prankster)? -- Child of Auschwitz / Imre Kertesz -- A story for you / Thomas Keneally, Steven Spielberg -- The ghost writer / Wolfgang Koeppen -- The effect of the real / W.G. Sebald -- Willing executioners / Bernhard Schlink -- Identity theft : The second generation -- The third generation.

9780195313963 (cloth : alk. paper)

2010013590


Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
Jewish fiction--History and criticism.
Truth in literature.
Memory in literature.

PN56.3.J4 / F73 2011

809/.93358405318