Gessen: I want to come back a little bit to what you were saying about “Beloved,” because you were doing something that’s actually quite controversial. It was very logical, but you were comparing. There is a very strongly articulated position that the Holocaust should never be compared to anything. I’ve been accused of relativizing the Holocaust, and there’s another equally strongly articulated position that the Holocaust has to be placed in a chronology of
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