Have you read any Sonia Levitin? I made the mistake of picking up one of her novels at one point, only to discover that the climax of the novel was the burning alive of the entire Jewish community of Strasbourg during the Black Death; and the emotional outcome of the novel was that the futuristic witness, who was assigned to watch the whole thing as punishment for his evil tendencies towards individuality, completely recanted said tendencies and firmly promised always to be exactly like his neighbors forevermore.

And then the universe was destroyed.

I am only kidding about that last.