Die Shoah erzählt

The study describes the development from autobiography to (post-modern) experimental narrative in the depiction of the Holocaust. In the interpretation of testimonies by survivors, emphasis is placed on selective memory, illustrated with reference to representative texts from different types of literature. A number of novels that have (in some cases) been given a mixed reception stand as representatives of the experimental approach (novels by Jewish and non-Jewish authors such as Hilsenrath, Gary, Grossman, Amis, Thomas, Ransmayr). A chapter is devoted to young Jewish literature in the Netherlands.