Marc De Kesel is professor of Philosophy at Saint Paul University in Ottawa, Canada. His field of his research covers continental philosophy, Lacanian theory, Shoah studies, and theories of religion. Recent books: Auschwitz mon amour (on Shoah Reception; in Dutch), Amsterdam: Boom, 2012. Eros & Ethics: Reading Jacques Lacan, Séminaire VII, Albany: SUNY Press, 2009; (in Dutch) Goden breken. Essays over monotheïsme (Destroying Gods: Essays on Monotheism), Amsterdam: Boom, 2010. Bettine Siertsema wrote her PhD thesis on Dutch autobiographical texts on the concentration camps, with special attention to religious and ethical dimensions (Uit de diepten. Vught: Skandalon, 2007, in Dutch). She is now a researcher at the Faculty of Philosophy of VU University in Amsterdam. Her fields of interest are Dutch and international Holocaust literature, and the interface of religion and literature.Katarzyna Szurmiak is a historian currently working in education. She specialises in Jewish history and culture. Her research interests focus mostly on Yiddish language and culture, history of Jews in Poland and memory of the Shoah.

• The ContributorsIntroduction, Marc De Kesel & Katarzyna SzurmiakSummary of the Novel, Jan CeuppensQuod Vide, or the Displacement of Meaning In the Narrative Construction of Love, Dany NobusGuerrilla War with Words. The Language of Resistance to the Shoah, Olga KaczmarekGrossman’s White Room and Schulzian Empty Spaces, Katarzyna SzurmiakThe Laugh of a God Who Doesn’t Exist, Marc De KeselThe Perpetrator, Bettine SiertsemaDiasporic Remarks, Dirk De SchutterThe Holocaust’s Muses – On Voices, Appropriation and Misappropriation in Grossman’s Novel and W.G. Sebald’s Prose Fiction, Jan CeuppensThe Novel Form and the Timing of the Nation, Pieter Vermeulen Torag, Dolgan, Ning, Gyoya, Orga - Diaspora Under the Sign of Salmon, Ortwin De GraefOn Some Adornean Catchwords, Erik VogtBibliographyIndex