The Conflagration of Community: Fiction before and after Auschwitz

Juxtaposes Readings Of Books About The Holocaust With Kafka's Novels And Morrison's 'beloved', Asking What It Means To Think Of Texts As Acts Of Testimony. Theories Of Community -- Nancy Contra Stevens -- Franz Kafka: Premonitions Of Auschwitz -- Foreshadowings Of Auschwitz In Kafka's Writings -- The Breakdown Of Community And The Disabling Of Speech Acts In Kafka's The Trial -- The Castle: No Mitsein, No Verifiable Interpretation -- Holocaust Novels -- Three Novels About The Shoah -- Imre Kertész's Fatelessness: Fiction As Testimony -- Fiction After Auschwitz -- Morrison's Beloved. J. Hillis Miller. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.