World Rights Take a Lift from a Neo-Nazi? ; Warning: Francine Prose Is Unsafe for Sacred Cows

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Comedy has a few rules, and heading the list is: You don't make a Holocaust survivor a butt of satire. Francine Prose, whose previous "Blue Angel" was a finalist for the National Book Award, apparently didn't get that memo. Or else she did, and chose to breakdance all over it - in the process flinging sacred cows farther than the catapult did in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail." That she succeeds as well as she does is a testament to her ability as a writer, but one can't help wondering if she had to take aim at that particular target.

"Blue Angel" delved into the hypocrisies of academia and the style of political correctness that resided on elite campuses in the 1990s. …