Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- '…either not a novel or not about Treblinka' -- 'Your struggles for humanity will inspire poems' -- Chapter 1 Formal matters -- Reversed narration -- A satire on backshadowing -- The 'doubled' narrator -- Intertextuality: Robert Jay Lifton's The Nazi Doctors -- Chapter 2 Documentary fiction -- Anatoly Kuznetsov, Babi Yar -- History versus poetry -- Women and Jews -- Chapter 3 Autobiographical fiction -- Literary violence -- ' "If you paint a bird, it won't fly" ' -- Black bird -- The text as art -- Chapter 4 Faction -- 'Faction, that terrible word' -- 'Hell is over there' -- 'Plausible reconstruction' -- 'Promising a future' (395) -- The narrator -- 'And now all that good, expensive gas has been wasted on the Jews!' -- 'It's the personality more than anything else that saved us' -- 'My Jews' -- Chapter 5 Melodrama -- The Auschwitz experience -- Rudolf Höss, Commandant of Auschwitz -- 'Someone from no-one' -- Olga Lengyel, Five Chimneys -- Holocaust girls -- Chapter 6 Historical polemic -- 'A frightful dose of Demidenko' -- 'On the Other Hand' -- Hearing voices -- The begetters of violence -- Conclusion -- When fact turns into fiction: Binjamin Wilkomirski's Fragments -- Historical inaccuracy: Jim Allen's Perdition -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.