Contents // Acknowledgements...5 // Introduction ...11 // 1 Constituting the Prototypical Holocaust Novel: // Edward Lewis Wallant’s The Pawnbroker ...21 // 2 A Strange Boy in a Strange Land in a Strange Book: // Jerzy Kosinski’s The Painted Bird...41 // 3 Survival as a Philosophical Pilgrimage: // Saul Bellow’s Mr. Sammlers Planet...63 // 4 Memory as a Form of Reality: // Susan Fromberg Schaeffer’s ??? ...83 // 5 Macbeth in the Jewish Ghetto: // Leslie Epstein’s King ?/f/ie/ezes...107 // 6 Denial and Obsession: // Cynthia Ozick’s T/?e S/wzei ...125 // 7 The Holocaust as a Comic Book: // Art Spiegelman’s Mrti/s ... 149 // Conclusion ... 175 // Works Cited ... 190 // Résumé ... 196 // Index