The Culture of Forgetting: Helen Demidenko and the Holocaust
Text Publishing, 196 pp, $16.95 pb
The Culture of Forgetting: Helen Demidenko and the Holocaust by Robert Manne
Several books could and doubtless will be written to explore the sociological and psychological puzzles attending Helen Darville’ s remarkable masquerade. Robert Manne has no interest in the motivations of Helen Darville. His concerns are cultural and political, and therefore focus on the fictional character, Helen Demidenko: on her writings and statements, and on the responses of Australian intellectuals to those writings and statements during her brief life from 1992 to late August, 1995.
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