Crises of memory and the Second World War / Susan Rubin Suleiman.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-277) and index.

Introduction : crises of memory -- Choosing our past : Jean-Paul Sartre as memoirist of occupied France -- Narrative desire : the "Aubrac affair" and national memory of the French resistance -- Commemorating the illustrious dead : Jean Moulin and André Malraux -- History, memory, and moral judgment after the Holocaust : Marcel Ophuls's Hotel Terminus : the life and times of Klaus Barbie -- Anamnesis : remembering Jewish identity in Central Europe after communism : István Szabó's Sunshine -- Revision : historical trauma and literary testimony : the Buchenwald memoirs of Jorge Semprun -- Do facts matter in Holocaust memoirs? : Wilkomirski/Wiesel -- The edge of memory : experimental writing and the 1.5 generation : Perec/Federman -- Amnesia and amnesty : reflections on forgetting and forgiving.