Holocaust as fiction : Bernhard Schlink's "Nazi" novels and their films / William Collins Donahue

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, th...

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Main Authors:Donahue, William Collins (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:Basingstoke [u.a.] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
Edition:1. ed., 1. publ
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents
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 & sons: two kinds of second generation victim
The reader as an American novel
The Hollywood reader.