Review of \u3ci\u3eBorn Under Auschwitz: Melancholy Traditions in Postwar German Literature\u3c/i\u3e by Mary Cosgrove. Rochester, NY and Cambridge, UK: Camden House, 2014. 234pp. ISBN 9781571135568.

Mary Cosgrove seeks to explore literary variations on the theme of melancholy in postward German fiction, mostly in works by Günter Grass, Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Peter Weiss, W. G. Sebald, and Iris Hanika. Her visual point of reference throughout is the 1514 engraving by Albrecht Dürer titled “Melencolia I,” itself the subject of numerous scholarly inquiries