/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.16489150]

What’s the best piece of Holocaust-related fiction out there.

Please no /pol/-tier answers like Anne Frank, if you really feel the need to shitpost, just post exceptionally bad works of fiction such as Boy in the Striped PJs

[Anonymous No.16489158]

>>16489150
Primo Levi

[Anonymous No.16489162]

>>16489150
> ball point pen
The source material more than suffices

[Anonymous No.16489356]

Without a doubt, Night. Wiesel changed up his story so much that revised versions had to be released continually.

[Anonymous No.16489362]

>>16489162

What did I just tell you?!

[Anonymous No.16489460]

>>16489162

>>>/his/9520740

[Anonymous No.16489470]

She was so cute lads.

[Anonymous No.16489802]

yeah

[Anonymous No.16489863]

>>16489150
The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell is a real masterpiece IMO. It’s so well researched, he must have been totally immersed in Nazi shit for years. It’s a really good novel, told through the eyes of an SS officer, too, but very long.
The introduction is here:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/102114/the-kindly-ones-by-jonathan-littell/9781551993645/excerpt

He takes what is (to the mainstream) very taboo stuff about the Holocaust and brings it all to life just perfectly.
As one example, he explains the somewhat baffling liquidation of Hungarian Jews in 1944, well after it was clear Germany was losing the war. He shows how, rather than a midnight hour orgy of bloodlust, it was really the result of mismanagement and competing bureaucratic interests (only one of which was to just kill as many jews as possible), working against each other.

[Anonymous No.16489876]

>>16489150
>Holocaust
>fiction
I see what you did there.

[Anonymous No.16489908]

>>16489150
Read literally any holocaust “history” book

[Anonymous No.16490847]

>>16489362

kek

[Anonymous No.16490852]

What's wrong with the boy in the striped pyjamas. I read it in high school and liked it.

[Anonymous No.16490863]

>>16490852
>What's wrong with the boy in the striped pyjamas.

It's a laughably inaccurate depiction of the Holocaust

[Anonymous No.16492149]

yeah

[Anonymous No.16492180]

>>16490852
It’s just a terrible premise lol

[Anonymous No.16492182]

>>16489150
Night by Eli Wisel is mostly bullshit. He has a very interesting quote about it

[Anonymous No.16493634]

bump

[Anonymous No.16493664]

Son of Saul

[Anonymous No.16493713]

>>16489356
>>16492182
>Wiesel
Hate this hypocrite faggot so much. He's all for human rights until Israel is brought up.

[Anonymous No.16493816]

Does /lit/ have an opinion about Maus? Seems like Spiegelman does a good job about confronting his biases as he goes along.

[Anonymous No.16493915]

>>16493816

Love the part where his kike dad says niggers are dangerous. That's all I remember.

[Anonymous No.16493934]

>>16493816
Maus is actually entertaining and you can read it in less than a day. Plus his dad hated the black man.

[Anonymous No.16494440]

>>16493915
>>16493934
Ah okay thank you

[Anonymous No.16494893]

While it's not fiction, a book I really enjoyed was The Auschwitz Photographer, by Luca Crippa and Maurizio Onnis.

It's a biographical story about Wilhelm Brasse, an Auschwitz inmate who took many of the most well-known photographs of Auschwitz's inmates, officers, and also of Mengele's subjects.