James E. Young
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Also see Joel Snyder and Neil Walsh Allen, “Photography, Vision, andRepresentation,”
Critical Inquiry
, Autumn 1975, p. 145; John Berger,
About Looking
(New York: Pantheon Press, 1980); and Kendall L. Walton, “Transparent Pictures:On the Nature of Photographic Realism,”
Critical Inquiry
11, no. 2 (December 1984):246-77.11. Alfred Andersch,
Efraim’s Book
(New York: Viking Penguin, 1984), p. 143.12. Pierre Julitte,
Block 26: Sabotage at Buchenwald
(New York: Doubleday, 1971),p. xi. Also quoted in Ezrahi,
By Words Alone
, p. 25, as part of an excellent discussionof “Documentation as Art.”13. Ezrahi suggests we compare Steiner’s account, for example, with Yankel Wiernik’s diary,
A Year in Treblinka
, and Vasili Grossman’s
L’Enfer de Treblinka (ByWords Alone, p. 32)
.14. Jean-Francois Steiner,
Treblinka
(New York: New American Library, 1979), p.304. In the afterword to the original French edition, Steiner’s reference is exactly thesame (“
L’Enfer de Treblinka
, par un correspondant de guerre de I’armée soviétique quiinterrogea les premiers témoins”).
Treblinka
(Paris: Librairie Artheme Fayand, 1966),p. 394.15. In her study,
The Theme of Nazi Concentration Camps in French Literature
(TheHague and Paris: Mouton and Company, 1973), Cynthia Haft cites Steiner’s andReiner’s as instances of dishonest fiction, “part of a trend which we abhor,” and notesthat after legal proceedings, Reiner reedited his book to include acknowledgments where they were due (p. 191).16. Leon W. Wells,
The Death Brigade
(New York: Holocaust Library, 1978), p.133. See, among many other excellent memoirs, Erich Kulka,
Escape from Auschwitz
(South Hadley, Mass.: Bergin and Garvey Publishers, Inc., 1986), and Filip Müller,
Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers
(New York: Stein and Day,1979).17. Alvin H. Rosenfeld,
A Double Dying: Reflections on Holocaust Literature
(Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1980), p. 66. John Hersey,
TheWall
(New York: Knopf, 1950). Leon Uris,
Mila 18
(New York: Doubleday, 1961).18. Ronald Weber,
The Literature of Fact
(Athens: Ohio University Press, 1980),p. 163 (emphasis mine).19. Lennard Davis,
Factual Fictions: The Origins of the English Novel
(New York:Columbia University Press, 1983), pp. 212-13.
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