The Lure of Vicarious Traumatization: Binjamin Wilkomirski's Bruchstücke and the Construction of False Identity

• Autores: Martin Modlinger
• Localización: Quaderns de filologia. Estudis literaris, ISSN 1135-4178, Nº 16, 2011 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Escrituras del yo), págs. 259-277
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Memory, writing, perspective and, by implication, truth (that which happened) permeate the first few paragraphs in Binjamin Wilkomirski�s Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood. It is the last one of these ever-present buzzwords in autobiographical studies that now dominates the discourse on the �Wilkomirski case�. Since Daniel Ganzfried�s doubts about the authenticity of Wilkomirski�s so very unlikely story of survival had been confirmed in Stefan Mächler�s meticulously researched study The Wilkomirski Affair, academic research has relegated Fragments to the ever-growing pile of scandalous Holocaust kitsch and declared Wilkomirski � or rather Bruno Dössekker, the person who �invented� Binjamin, the traumatized child Holocaust survivor � a liar and fraudster.

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