A controversial novel by German academic Martin Walser has sold out on its first day of publication in Germany.
Death of a critic,
The main character in the book, which tells of a writer killing a critic, is based on the German Jewish literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki.
Walser, 75, has been criticized by Jewish leaders as being part of a revisionist wave that effectively denies the Holocaust.
Walser has denied he is a revisionist but he has refused to retract remarks he made in 1998 at a book award ceremony.
He said the deaths at Auschwitz were being used as a "moral cudgel" to hammer home "our (German) disgrace for current-day purposes".
BBC
Martin Walser is a respected academic
Death of a critic,
The main character in the book, which tells of a writer killing a critic, is based on the German Jewish literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki.
Walser, 75, has been criticized by Jewish leaders as being part of a revisionist wave that effectively denies the Holocaust.
Walser has denied he is a revisionist but he has refused to retract remarks he made in 1998 at a book award ceremony.
He said the deaths at Auschwitz were being used as a "moral cudgel" to hammer home "our (German) disgrace for current-day purposes".
BBC
Martin Walser is a respected academic
