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November 13, 2014

There Were No Love Stories in Auschwitz. Is It Acceptable for a Novelist to Invent One?

Martin Amis’s new novel, Zone of Interest, is the story of a love-triangle among members of the Nazi officialdom at Auschwitz. By focusing on the inner lives of the perpetrators of genocide, writes Cynthia Ozick, Amis normalizes them. Zone of Interest thereby “makes the best argument against itself.” The problem resides in something inherent in the nature of fiction:

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November 13, 2014

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  4. There Were No Love Stories in Auschwitz. Is It Acceptable for a Novelist to Invent One?

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