Do facts matter in Holocaust memoirs? Wilkomirsky/Wiesel
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Do facts matter in Holocaust memoirs? Wilkomirsky/Wiesel
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number940.5318/0289
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]02430b
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Syracuse, New York, United States
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]Syracuse University Press
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2006
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]pp21-42
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Article
[nb-NO]Series title[nb-NO]Religion, Theology and the Holocaust
[nb-NO]ISBN[nb-NO]9780815630647
NotesArticle from the book 'Obliged by memory' pp21-42
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
This essay explores what happens to the gap between facts and writing when the latter is concerned with issues of great collective significance such as the Holocaust. Two examples are discussed -Fragments and All Rivers Run to the Sea, both raise questions about memory and its relation to historical truth.