Readership: Readers of periodicals like The New Republc, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and The Nation, Tikkun, Granta, Harpers; those with an interest in the Holocaust, history, and the relationship between memoir and fiction; scholars of Jewish literature and the Jewish Diaspora.
"Ruth Franklin is a thoughtful guide to the problem of lies and truth in Holocaust fiction" - New Statesman
"Superb... by scrupulously defending the integrity of literature, Ms. Franklin has offered her own eloquent testimony." - Wall Street Journal
"Ruth Franklin's keen analysis makes a major contribution to the literary criticism of Shoah writers, and her humane perspective renders the nuances of a fraught subject newly comprehensible." - Jewish Book Council
"a brilliant, challenging and surprising work" - Jewish Journal
"A Thousand Darknesses succeeds in forming a coherent whole that makes a powerful argument for the propriety of treating the Holocaust as awellspring of literary art" - Commentary Magazine
Introduction Part One: The Witnesses 1.: Angry Young Man: Tadeusz Borowski 2.: The Alchemist: Primo Levi 3.: The Kabbalist in the Death Camps: Elie Wiesel 4.: The Anti-Witness: Piotr Rawicz Part Two: The Winding Border 5.: The Art of the Self: Jerzy Kosinski 6.: Child of Auschwitz: Imre Kertesz 7.: Oskar Schindler and His List 8.: Wolfgang Koeppen 9.: W.G. Sebald Part Three: The Future 10.: Bernhard Schlink 11.: Identity Theft: The Second Generation 12.: The Third Generation?
