History, Literature, Critical Theory -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Mutual Interrogation of History and Literature -- 2. The Quest! The Quest! Conrad and Flaubert -- 3. Coetzee, Sebald, and the Narrative of Trauma -- 4. Historical and Literary Approaches to the "Final Solution": Saul Friedländer and Jonathan Littell -- 5. The Literary, the Historical, and the Sacred: The Question of Nazism -- Epilogue: Recent Figurations of Trauma and Violence: Tarrying with Ž iž ek -- Notes -- Index.