Imagining the Holocaust / Daniel R. Schwarz.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-345) and index.

Introduction. The ethics of imagining the Holocaust : representation, responsibility, and reading. I. Memoirs. The ethics of reading Elie Wiesel's Night -- Painful memories : the agony of Primo Levi -- World into words : The diary of Anne Frank and Sophie Goetzel-Leviathan's The war from within. II. Realism. Haunted by history : Tadeusz Borowski's This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen -- John Hersey's The wall : fiction as history in the first generation of Holocaust fiction -- Popular fiction : Gerald Green's Holocaust : a novel of survival and triumph -- Beyond the camps : Kosinski's The painted bird -- The ontological problems of docufiction : William Styron's Sophie's choice -- Keneally's and Spielberg's Schindler's list : realistic novel into epic film. III. Myth, parable, and fable. Schwarz-Bart's mythopoetic and historical humanism : The last of the just -- Aharon Appelfeld's parables -- Illuminating distorion and historical cartoon : Leslie Epstein's King of the jews. IV. Fantasy. The comic groteque of Spiegelman's Maus -- Cynthia Ozick's fables : "The shawl" and "Rosa" -- Bruno Schulz's nightmare in The street of crocodiles and Sanitarium under the sign of the hourglass and Cynthia Ozick's response in The messiah of Stockholm.