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**ehib8yPc** · 02-26-2009, 11:39 PM

Would you say, JPS, that this novel is an example of Holocaust kitsch?

Because, surely, research is no substitute for having experienced the epoch at first hand. I object to what is being attempted in general as much as I would to any stylistic flaws. We live in a crazy age where, on the one hand, young authors are cashing in on the Holocaust, while at the same time, people such as David Irving and Richard Williamson are cashing in on the fact that, for instance, the Holocaust killed "only" 300,000 Jews, not 6 million, or that the gas chambers didn't exist, to enhance their reputations and agendas.

I find the whole Holocaust industry sick. Either you read what the victims and survivors wrote, in diary or semi-fictional form, or you leave well alone. The subject is too recent, too sensitive, too searing to be exploited by people for their own literary and political ends.

02-26-2009, 11:39 PM	#16
ehib8yPc Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 564 Senior Member	Would you say, JPS, that this novel is an example of Holocaust kitsch? Because, surely, research is no substitute for having experienced the epoch at first hand. I object to what is being attempted in general as much as I would to any stylistic flaws. We live in a crazy age where, on the one hand, young authors are cashing in on the Holocaust, while at the same time, people such as David Irving and Richard Williamson are cashing in on the fact that, for instance, the Holocaust killed "only" 300,000 Jews, not 6 million, or that the gas chambers didn't exist, to enhance their reputations and agendas. I find the whole Holocaust industry sick. Either you read what the victims and survivors wrote, in diary or semi-fictional form, or you leave well alone. The subject is too recent, too sensitive, too searing to be exploited by people for their own literary and political ends.
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