The Witness of Literature: Soazig Aaron's Le non de Klara

This article maintains the importance of Holocaust fiction, using as exemplar Soazig Aaron's Le non de Klara. The novel demonstrates the responsibilities of witness fiction: such writing does not distort the known historical record; it acknowledges where representation utterly fails; it nevertheless operates as literature, i.e., compelling readers to imagine how histories can illuminate the present and to recognize the insidious mechanisms that lead us to ravage our collective humanity by seeing others as different and estranged from us.