The Holocaust as fiction
From Andrzej Wajda's "Korczak" to Quentin Tarantino's "Inglorious Basterds"
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Abstract
"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." However, what if remaining silent is unacceptable? Then Wittgenstein's famous dictum no longer helps, writes Stefan Auer. Then one narrates stories, even cinematic ones.
(Web Special, pp. 1–9)
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