ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the surreal and fantasy forced journeys in W ou le souvenir d'enfance by the French author Georges Perec an Eine Reise by the German-language Czech author H. G. Adler. It examines how such fictionalization affects the representation of the Holocaust in the works of two authors of divergent generations and perspectives, namely a survivor and the child of a Holocaust victim. Adler draws attention to the issues of education and historiography after and about the Holocaust, and his work offers warnings about Holocaust denial, whereas Perec's narrator highlights the continued existence of fascism in the 1970s, for example in Augusto Pinochet's concentration camps in Chile. Adler's text is therefore illustrative of a substantial change in critical acceptance of experimental texts dealing with Holocaust. Perec's work could be characterized as a dialectical encounter between the individual loss of his parents and the collective tragedy of the Second World War and the extermination camps.
