Crime in Writing: Ethics and Aesthetics in Anagramas de Varsórvia by Richard Zimler

Abstract

In the novel Anagramas de Varsóvia by Richard Zimler, a series of brutal murders of children, during the segregation of the Jews into ghettos in World War II, puts the reader in the face of this world without affection and nor compassion, mentioned by Jorge Luis Borges, as well as in reality transformed into stone, as the graves in Italo Calvino’s text.