As Emotional Disarray Escalates into Mental Disorder in Michael Berg's "Hanna-story", the Fictive Narrator's Aberrant Behavior As Cause for Misreadings of Bernhard Schlink's Novel "Der Vorleser"

This book offers a fresh look at how the incomprehensible horror of the Holocaust becomes more comprehensible through literature and art. Der Vorleser continues to be a highly controversial work of contemporary fiction. McDonald's analysis elucidates new truths to the conflicting themes about the uncomplementary forces of using fictive psychological literature in the historically significant setting that embodies the novel.