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ON MARKETING HOLOCAUST FICTION
Given these several weeks since I Truly Lament: Working Through the Holocaust was released, I have experienced a subtle and sometimes not so subtle resistance to review the book. Holocaust aversion is not uncommon for all kinds of rational and irrational reasons. I encountered this once before with the publication of The I Tetralogy, a major novel on the Holocaust. Indeed, I had written a 20 page essay explaining my motives and rationale for writing such a book. I regret having done so. Writing about the Holocaust needs no justification. This talk, given in 2007, states my position. Be aware or…
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Harry Jahal’s Interview with the Author
What does your Book Subject deals in ? Please give an introduction about your book ? “No one who seriously encounters the Holocaust is ever done with it. I TRULY LAMENT is a varied collection of stories, inmates in death camps, survivors of these camps, disenchanted Golems complaining about their tasks, Holocaust deniers and their ravings, and collectors of Hitler curiosa (only recently a few linens from Hitler’s bedroom suite went up for sale!) as well as an imagined interview with Eva Braun during her last days in the bunker. The intent is to perceive the Holocaust from several points…
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By Fran Lewis, Reviewer
I Truly Lament: Working Through the Holocaust: Mathias Freese When someone is upset, really sorry about an event or something in they have caused, experienced or grieve they often lament. If you lament something than you are truly sorry about it and made a serious mistake. But, how does this apply to the profound, compelling and graphic short stories that Mathias B. Freese shares with readers as we take a journey back in time to the Holocaust. Take a shovel and dig a huge hole and throw hundreds of bodies in this open pit. Take another shovel and dig more…