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expert Stefan Maechler later wrote, "Once the professed interrelationship between the first-person narrator, the death-camp story he narrates, and historical reality are proved palpably false, what was a masterpiece becomes kitsch."
The book.
In 1995, Wilkomirski, a professional clarinettist and instrument maker living in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, published a memoir entitled "Bruchstücke. Aus einer Kindheit 1939–1948" (later published in English as "Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood)". In the book
Binjamin Wilkomirski
Binjamin Wilkomirski, real name Bruno Dössekker (born Bruno Grosjean in 1941), is a musician and writer who claimed to be a Holocaust survivor. His fictional 1995 memoir, published in English as "Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood", was debunked by Swiss journalist and writer in August 1998. The subsequent disclosure of Wilkomirski's fabrications sparked heated debate in the German and English-speaking world. Many critics argued that "Fragments" no longer had any literary value. Swiss historian and anti-Semitism