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Record Nr.

UNINA9910955276803321

Autore

Donahue William Collins

Titolo

Holocaust as Fiction : Bernhard Schlink's "Nazi" Novels and Their Films / / by W. Donahue

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2010

ISBN

9786612993633

9781282993631

1282993631

9780230115460

0230115462

Edizione

[1st ed. 2010.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Disciplina

833/.914

Soggetti

Literature, Modern - 20th century

European literature

Fiction

Literature - History and criticism

Culture - Study and teaching

Ethnology

Culture

Twentieth-Century Literature

European Literature

Fiction Literature

Literary History

Cultural Studies

Regional Cultural Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : "Mighty aphrodite" or, How to have it both ways -- Resister after the fact : Schlink's Selb-trilogy and the culture of politically correct Holocaust literature -- Soothing fictions : ambiguity as defense -- "What would you have done?" : guilt as virtue -- Fathers and sons : two kinds of second generation victim -- The reader as an



American novel -- The Hollywood reader.

Sommario/riassunto

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.