Fragments of a fraud: the case of Binjamin Wilkomirski

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Pollyanna Gomes dos
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Arquivo Maaravi: Revista Digital de Estudos Judaicos da UFMG
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/maaravi/article/view/14065
• topic: Fraude; Testemunho; Shoah; Fraud; Testimonial; Shoah

Taking into account the difference between plagiarism, fraud and fictional strategy, the main goal of this essay is to analyze the construction of literary texts that have a possible connotation between writing and crime. As stated by Anatol Rosenfeld, the literary fraud is as old as literature itself. One of the books chosen for this research is Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood, written by Binjamin Wilkomirski. In the book, the author, who is also the narrator, affirms he was a prisoner of internment camps and a survivor of the Second World War. After a great success that the book reached and positive assessments by critics over the world, it was discovered that his history was not true.