September 11, 1998

Fiction About the Holocaust

To the Editor:

I agree with Michelle Ephraim's main contention in "Fiction and the Holocaust: Must Realism Be Paramount?" (Opinion, July 31): that, despite the risks involved, contemporary non-realist fiction like Joseph Skibell's has the potential to function as a "dynamic" and beneficial representation of Nazi Germany by assuming "the reader's ethical autonomy." Especially in the case of a well-documented atrocity like the Nazi

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