Holocaust as Fiction seeks to explain and critically evaluate the extraordinary success of Schlink's internationally acclaimed novel, The Reader , the widely read "Selb" detective trilogy, and two popular films based closely on his work.

Autorentext
William Collins Donahue is Professor and Chair of Germanic Languages at Duke University, USA.

Inhalt
Introduction: "Mighty Aphrodite" - Or How to Have it Both Ways * Resister after the Fact : Schlink's Selb Trilogy and the Culture of Politically Correct Holocaust Literature * Soothing Fictions: Ambiguity as Defense * "What Would You Have Done?": Guilt as Virtue * Fathers & Sons: Two Kinds of Second Generation Victim * The Holocaust's "Afterlife" in Contemporary German Literature: Select Case Studies * The Reader as an American Novel * The Hollywood Reader