Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. Part One. Theories of Community
6. 1. Nancy contra Stevens 3
7. Part Two. Franz Kafka: Premonitions of Auschwitz
8. 2. Foreshadowings of Auschwitz in Kafka’s Writings 39
9. 3. The Breakdown of Community and the Disabling of Speech Acts in Kafka’s The Trial 67
10. 4. The Castle: No Mitsein, No Verifiable Interpretation 103
11. Part Three. Holocaust Novels
12. Prologue: Community in Fiction after Auschwitz 149
13. 5. Three Novels about the Shoah 155
14. 6. Imre Kertész’s Fatelessness: Fiction as Testimony 177
15. Part Four. Fiction after Auschwitz
16. 7. Morrison’s Beloved 231
17. Coda 271
18. Notes 273
19. Index of Names, Titles of Works, and Characters 301