Defined as ‘a non-fictional account of historical events that nevertheless deploys narrative strategies and techniques characteristic to fiction’, the infranovel seems to be aFrench response to ‘historiographic metafiction’. Considering that these strategies and techniques are postmodern, an infranovel that thematises the Holocaust may, however, seem to some as an oxymoronic or at least morally inappropriate construct. Inventing the Infranovelinvestigates how the postmodern tropes and narrative devices used by eight contemporary French authors serve to dramatize and memorialise the Shoah in a post-witness era. Additionally, a close and historically contextualised reading of narratives by Patrick Modiano, Pierre Assouline, Soazig Aaron, Jonathan Littell, Philippe Claudel, Yannick Haenel, Fabrice Humbert and Laurent Binet probes the ethical questions raised by the interplay of these novels’ aesthetics and thematics, and the political issues they tackle as part of their commitment to postmodern ethos.