The True Wilkomirski |
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Authors: | Geras Norman |
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Affiliation: | (1) Dept of Government, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK |
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Abstract: | The paper considers whether it matters that Binjamin Wilkomirski's Fragments is not, as he presented it, a genuine survivor account, but rather a fabrication or fiction. It matters in one way and it doesn't in another. It matters because the truth is important: both in general and with regard specifically to the Holocaust. However, that Fragments is a fiction also doesn't matter, for it can be read independently of its author's identity; can be read as being, indeed, fiction. Read thus, the book retains much of its power and quality as a narrative of what the memories of a child survivor might be. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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Keywords: | fiction Holocaust memory representation survivor testimony truth Wilkomirski witness |
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