Nightfather, a memoir, is considered a combination of a realistic and historical novel, which is presented in chapters of brief streams-of-consciousness as well.
Nightfather, is literally, a story of the pain, horror, and affect, caused by the Nazi holocaust. In this sense, it is very much a realistic novel. It describes starvation, hangings, gassings, and more in an objective and very realistically unpleasant way. In the father’s stories, he tells of being so hungry that your stomach “doesn’t growl, it gnaws,” (Friedman 9) or about Willi Hammer who would “take [him] aside and beat [him] up. He’d leave the lead ball in his pocket and use his bare fists…” (45) with little glory or added details. Even the children have come to accept these
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