Today’s literature on the Shoah is quantitatively so substantial that some scholars have spoken about a over-familiarization, on the verge of inure, with this cultural theme from the public and the social world. This phenomenon, resulting from a positive action of the memory and the analysis on the one hand and the intensive exploitation of the cultural industry on the other (hand), challenges this writing technique to find, in particular, non stereotyped expressive routes within a reassessment of its own function and role that avoids the risk of déjà vu; in these terms we could even speak of a new consideration of the classics of this literary genre. In the most interesting works published after the year 2000, like my Holocaust by Tova Reich or Kalooki nights by Howard Jacobson man can perceive the awareness of these issues, first of all the choice of an anti-literary, oralizing, a comic- grotesque language. But these textual levels are intertwined  with considerations on other communication channels and techniques through which the contemporary evaluates the Shoah, from the omnipresence of the photographic medium as support for the spread of knowledge to the heterogeneous social groups claiming the importance and the necessity of a visible recognition of their Holocaust. In particular, a representation of what man can define, following the theories of R. Girard, a mimetic contagion of the vision seems to take shape in these works: many characters look compulsively at photos and TV (think about Sulphuric Acid, Nothomb’s realty-show), symbols of a by now filtered, mediated as well as increasingly far from the testimonies knowledge but also objects of the narrative discourse, referents the literary writing needs to relate to.  Besides it is important to note that the above mentioned books doesn’t just contain meta-narrative speculations or perspectives focusing exclusively on the specific code of the Shoah literature: just think about the theme of the contagion of Evil or the comparison with the photographic communication, present in the most postmodern culture.