Crises of Memory and the Second World War

Susan Rubin Suleiman

    Introduction: Crises of Memory

    1. Choosing Our Past

    Jean-Paul Sartre as Memoirist of Occupied France

    2. Narrative Desire

    The Aubrac Affair and National Memory of the French Resistance

    3. Commemorating the Illustrious Dead

    Jean Moulin and André Malraux

    4. History, Memory, and Moral Judgment after the Holocaust

    Marcel Ophuls's Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie

    5. Anamnesis: Remembering Jewish Identity in Central Europe after Communism

    István Szab&oactute;'s Sunshine

    6. Revision: Historical Trauma and Literary Testimony

    The Buchenwald Memoirs of Jorge Semprun

    7. Do Facts Matter in Holocaust Memoirs?

    Wilkomirski/Wiesel

    8. The Edge of Memory: Experimental Writing and the 1.5 Generation

    Perec/Federman

    9. Amnesia and Amnesty: Reflections on Forgetting and Forgiving

    Notes

    Works Cited

    Index

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Susan Rubin Suleiman is the Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University.