The polysystem theory and discourse analysis -- The US-American political system and the discursive construction of the Holocaust -- The US-American religious system and radical or death-of-God theology -- The US-American philosophical system and French existentialism -- The US-American literary system and the Jewish renaissance -- French existentialist discourse -- Saul Bellow : progenitor of the US-American existentialist model -- Bernard Malamud : existentialist rebels -- Edward Lewis Wallant : affirmative Holocaust fiction -- Isaac Rosenfeld : the novel of alienation -- Daniel Stern : touching the void -- Jonathan Baumbach : born into this nightmare -- Norma Rosen : imagining Sisyphus happy