Holocaust as Fiction: Bernhard Schlink's "nazi" Novels and Their Films

by William Collins Donahue

Book Overview

Holocaust as Fiction seeks to explain and critically evaluate the extraordinary success of Schlink's internationally acclaimed novel, The Reader, the widely read "Selb" detective trilogy, and two popular films based closely on his work. With the help of wide-ranging reception data, the work of Holocaust scholars, as well as cultural and legal reflections on the concept of guilt, Donahue elucidates not only these works, but the wider critical climate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137277637
• ISBN13: 9781137277633
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"