Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. The Mutual Interrogation of History and Literature 12
5. 2. The Quest! The Quest! Conrad and Flaubert 31
6. 3. Coetzee, Sebald, and the Narrative of Trauma 54
7. 4. Historical and Literary Approaches to the “Final Solution”: Saul Friedländer and Jonathan Littell 95
8. 5. The Literary, the Historical, and the Sacred: The Question of Nazism 120
9. Epilogue Recent Figurations of Trauma and Violence: Tarrying with Žižek 148
10. Notes 165
11. Index 231