Anne Frank Shelved as Fiction

ANNE FRANK THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL The Definitive Edition Edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler FICTION

A person picks up a copy of Anne Frank’s diary in a bookstore, then reveals that it is shelved in the fiction section before walking away. The joke is dark and absurd, treating a real historical diary as fictional and implying disbelief or outrage at the bookstore’s categorization. EN: A person picks up a copy of Anne Frank’s diary in a bookstore, then reveals that it is shelved in the fiction section before walking away. The joke is dark and absurd, treating a real historical diary as fictional and implying disbelief or outrage at the bookstore’s categorization.

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