his book. Many critics argued that Fragments no longer had any literary value. "Once the professed interrelationship between the first-person narrator, the death-camp story he narrates, and historical reality are proved palpably false, what was a masterpiece becomes kitsch" (Maechler, 2000, p. 281). But for a few scholars, even as a pseudomemoir, the merits of the work still remain. "Those merits reside in a ferocious vision, a powerful narrative, an accumulation of indelible images, and the unforgettable way in which a small child's voice is deployed in an unfeeling adult world, during the war and thereafter" (Zeitlin, 2003, p. 177, see also Suleiman, 2006, p. 170). The Wilkomirski case was heatedly debated in Germany and Switzerland as a textbook example of the contemporary treatment of the Holocaust and of the perils of using it for one's own causes. However, the affair transcends the specific context of the Holocaust (see e.g. Chambers, 2002; Gabriel, 2004; Langer, 2006; Maechler, 2001b; Oels, 2004; Suleiman, 2006; Wickman, 2007). Wilkomirski's case raises questions about the literary genre of autobiography, the aesthetics of a literary work's reception, oral history, witness testimony, memory research, trauma therapies, and the like. The case is discussed in great detail by psychologists Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson as an interesting case of self-inflicted false memories (Tavris and Aronson, 2007, pp. 82ff.) See also Misha Defonseca (Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years, 1997) Martin Grey (Au nom de tous les miens) Herman Rosenblat (Angel at the Fence) Rosemarie Pence (Hannah: From Dachau to the Olympics and Beyond, 2005) Enric Marco (Memorias del infierno, 1978) Donald J. Watt (Stoker, 1995) Denis Avey (The Man who Broke into Auschwitz, 2011) Alex Kurzem (The Mascot, 2002) References Bibliography Ross Chambers: "Orphaned Memories, Foster-Writing, Phantom Pain: The Fragments Affair", in: Nancy K. Miller and Jason Tougaw (eds.) Extremities: Trauma, Testimony, and Community, Urbanan and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2002, pp. 92–111 Daniel Ganzfried: "Die Holocaust-Travestie. Erzählung". In: Sebastian Hefti (ed.): ... alias Wilkomirski. Die Holocaust-Travestie. Jüdische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 2002, pp. 17–154, Yiannis Gabriel: "The Voice of Experience and the Voice of the Expert – Can they Speak to each Other?" In: Brian Hurwitz, Trisha Greenhalgh, Vieda Skultans (eds.): Narrative Research in Health and Illness, Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2004, , pp. 168–186 Lawrence L. Langer: Using and Abusing the Holocaust, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006, Susan Rubin Suleiman: Crises of Memory and the Second World