Expands the definition of second-generation literature to include texts written from the point of view of the children of Nazi perpetrators.

A Self-Conscious Art is the first full-length study in English to attempt to deal with the formal complexities of Modiano's work, by reading "against the grain" of his self ...

A novel on a Spanish landowner and his bastard half brother to whom he is at once attracted and repelled. The relationship is played out against the background of the ...

In addition, he places their remarkable body of writing within the Grande Nation at large and also within the context of France's Jewish communities, which were simultaneously ...