Ethical Diversions

[jbor at bigpond.com]

On 23/06/2006:

> As for the other, what you call the taboo, it will never be more than 
> a hunch
> of mine, save P himself discussing it (fat chance).  But were I a young
> non-Jew, I would think long and hard about whether I dared wade into 
> the Holocaust
> in a work of fiction.

My only reservation about that theory is that he seems to have had no 
qualms whatsoever about addressing the Herero genocide in his novels 
and working up fictional characters and scenarios from it. I know I've 
made the point before.

best