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A thousand darknesses : lies and truth in Holocaust fiction /

What is the difference between writing a novel about the Holocaust and fabricating a memoir? Do narratives about the Holocaust have a special obligation to be 'truthful'--that is, faithful to the facts of history? Or is it okay to lie in such works? In her provocative study A Thousand Dark...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Franklin, Ruth
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:What is the difference between writing a novel about the Holocaust and fabricating a memoir? Do narratives about the Holocaust have a special obligation to be 'truthful'--that is, faithful to the facts of history? Or is it okay to lie in such works? In her provocative study A Thousand Darknesses, Ruth Franklin investigates these questions as they arise in the most significant works of Holocaust fiction, from Tadeusz Borowski's Auschwitz stories to Jonathan Safran Foer's postmodernist family history. Franklin argues that the memory-obsessed culture of the last few decades has led us to mistaken.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (x, 256 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199718306
019971830X
1282880896
9781282880894