Schmitz (German studies, U. of Warwick) examines the literature of the reunified Germany since 1990 and has found some reconfigurations in the ways writers narrate the German experience of National Socialism. He finds there have been shifts in the ways writers approach the subject; however, the overwhelming force of the victims and the questions about collective responsibility and collective suffering still haunt individual and collective literary memory, whether that memory is as perpetrator, victim, or ordinary German who was neither. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
