Holocaust literature in European languages

States that the literature of the Holocaust spans the spectrum from the documentary to the mythical - from the journals kept by those who were destined not to survive, to the memoirs of the survivors, to the documentary or pseudo-documentary art of those writers who strive for historical authenticity, to the art which has been integrated into established historical and literary traditions, and finally to the "apocalyptic" art of those writers for whom the Holocaust has so permeated the mind that it has transcended the bounds of historical time and social space.