A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction

by Ruth Franklin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195313968
• ISBN13: 9780195313963
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"