The true Wilkomirski

Res Publica

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 111-122

  Geras, Norman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fiction; Holocaust; Memory; Representation; Survivor; Testimony; Truth; Wilkomirski; Witness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037676964     PISSN: 13564765     EISSN: 15728692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1016067300911     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. B. Wilkomirski, Fragments: Memories of a Childhood, 1939-48 (London: Picador, 1996).
2. See, for example, A. H. Rosenfeld, A Double Dying: Reflections on Holocaust Literature (Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1988), 24, 65;
3. B. Foley, "Fact, Fiction, Fascism: Testimony and Mimesis in Holocaust Narratives", Comparative Literature 34 (1982), 330-60;
4. Z. Ozsvath & M. Satz, "The Audacity of Expressing the Inexpressible: The Relation Between Moral and Aesthetic Considerations in Holocaust Literature", Judaism 34 (1985), 197-210;
5. E. Wiesel, One Generation After (New York: Random House, 1970), 10-1.
6. This is the revised text of a paper presented at a seminar on "The Wilkomirski Affair" at the Wiener Library in London on 26 March 2000. The seminar was organized in association with the English Department of the University of Sheffield.
7. See "Roundtable Discussion", in B. Lang, ed., Writing and the Holocaust (New York: Holmes & Meier, 1988), 273-89, p. 281.
8. E. Lappin, "The Man with Two Heads", Granta 66 (Summer 1999), 7-65, p. 15.
9. T. Richmond, "Shards of memory", The Jewish Quarterly (Spring 1997), 68-9;
10. A. Karpf, "Child of the Shoah", Guardian (11 February 1998);
11. M. Amis et al., "Writing the Unwritable: A Debate on Holocaust Fiction", The Jewish Quarterly (Summer 1998), 12-5, p. 14.
12. See N. Geras, The Contract of Mutual Indifference: Political Philosophy after the Holocaust (London: Verso, 1998), 79-81.
13. S. Vice, "Fragments as Fiction", The Jewish Quarterly 178 (Summer 2000), 51-4.
14. See P. Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families (London: Picador, 1999).
15. P. Gourevitch, "The Memory Thief", The New Yorker, 14 June 1999, 48-68, p. 67.
16. ", The New Yorker, Ibid., 68.
17. ", The New Yorker, Ibid., 49, 65;
18. and cf. Lappin, ", The New Yorker, op. cit., 23.
19. In turn Lappin, ", The New Yorker, ibid., 13;
20. and Gourevitch, ", The New Yorker, op. cit., 54.
21. See "Writing the Unwritable: A Debate on Holocaust Fiction", ", The New Yorker, op. cit., 15.
22. I am grateful to Sue Vice and Julian Dodd for advice on aspects of this essay.