The Wilkomirski affair : a study in biographical truth
"This is the definitive report on Fragments, Binjamin Wilkomirski's invented "memoir" of a childhood spent in concentration camps, which created international turmoil." "In 1995 Fragments, a memoir by a Swiss musician named Binjamin Wilkomirski, was published in Germany. hailed by critics, who compared it with the masterpieces of Primo Levi and Anne Frank, the book received major prizes and was translated into nine languages. The English-language edition was published by Schocken in 1996. In Fragments, Wilkomirski described in heartwrenching detail how as a small child he survived internment in Majdanek and Birkenau and was eventually smuggled into Switzerland at the war's end."
Criticism, interpretation, etc
ix, 496 pages ; 21 cm
9780805211351, 0805211357
44876966
"Including the text of Fragments"--Cover
Translation of: Der Fall Wilkomirski; Zurich: Pendo Verlag, 2000