Nicolas Oikonomides was formerly Professor in the Department of History, University of Athens, Greece; Elizabeth Zachariadou is Professor at the University of Crete, Greece
The Belated Witness is an earnestly provocative treatment of issues absolutely essential to contemporary thought. It makes a valuable and insightful contribution to understanding literature not merely as one mode among others of representing historical events - in this case the traumatic experiences of Holocaust survivors - but, much more important, as the unconditional means of opening a genuinely historical future capable of moving beyond a blind and compulsive repetition of such traumatic events. - Kevin Newmark, Boston College