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Originally Posted by Eric
British reviewers´and critics´reactions to "Omega Minor" will be very interesting. I´ve put my cards on the table as regards my reservations about this kind of novel, which arguably belongs to the "Holocaust industry", as described above. Now that Sign & Sight is busy discussing the Littell novel "The Kindly Ones", and Grunberg has also made his mark with his book, I can imagine that this novel will be embedded, in critics´minds in the same genre.
As I have already said, I hope that we can get past this phase of popularising the murder of European Jews as a way of selling novels, and try to promote the reading of more things by those who actually experienced the epoch at first hand, and wrote either fiction and non-fiction.
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Eric,
I have recently come across and acquired:
Saul Friedlander's
The Years of Extermination, and
Daniel Goldhagen's
Hitler's Willing Executioners.
Apparently Goldhagen doesn't think much of Friedlander's work, calling it 'introductory' only, while a good friend of mine recommends the Goldhagen work very highly.
Your thoughts? Or alternative recommendations?