Some reflections on 'history and fiction' in my landscapes of the metropolis of death. Comments on Hayden White's 'the history fiction divide'

In this article two central questions raised by Hayden White are examined: first the structural definition of the book as a piece of post-modernist literary writing; and second, his defence of the legitamacy of literary work as an authentic representation of the Holocaust contrary to the claim of historians who regard literary writing as a priori illegitimate.