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Holocaust as Fiction seeks to explain and critically evaluate the extraordinary success of Schlink´s internationally acclaimed novel, The Reader , the widely read "Selb" detective trilogy, and two popular films based closely on his work.

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Introduction: "Mighty Aphrodite" - Or How to Have it Both Ways Resister after the Fact : Schlink´s Selb Trilogy and the Culture of Politically Correct Holocaust Literature Soothing Fictions: Ambiguity as Defense "What Would You Have Done?": Guilt as Virtue Fathers & Sons: Two Kinds of Second Generation Victim The Holocaust´s "Afterlife" in Contemporary German Literature: Select Case Studies The Reader as an American Novel The Hollywood Reader

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William Collins Donahue is Professor and Chair of Germanic Languages at Duke University, USA.

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