| Description |
1 online resource (265 pages) |
| Series |
Faux titre, 0167-9392 ; 381 |
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Faux titre ; 381
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; The Book's Provocation; "Adelphic Incest in Musil, Nabokov, and Littell"; "From 'Kitsch' to 'Splatter': The Aesthetics of Violence in The Kindly Ones"; "The Similarity of Perpetrators"; "Visibility and Iconicity of the German Language in The Kindly Ones"; The Perpetrator's Point of View; "'Oh my human brothers, let me tell you how it happened.' (Who is the Perpetrator Talking To?)"; "How Nazis Undermine their Own Point of View"; "Manufacturing Memories: Textual and Mnemonic Weaving in The Kindly Ones"; Memory & Intertexts |
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"The infamous 'I': Notes on Littell and Céline""The Kindly Ones and the 'Scorched-Earth' Principle"; "The Perpetrator as a Totalitarian Subject: Allegiance and Guilt in The Kindly Ones"; Historical Perspectives; "A Historian's View of The Kindly Ones"; '''Morality' and 'Humanness': Reading Littell with Speer, Fest, Syberberg and Others"; The Reception of the novel; "A German Reading of the German Reception of The Kindly Ones"; "La bienveillance de la critique polonaise. An Analysis of the Polish Reception of Les Bienveillantes"; Index |
| Summary |
Originally written in French, The Kindly Ones (2006) is the first major work of the Jewish-American author Jonathan Littell. Its extraordinary critical and commercial success, spawning a series of heated debates, has made this publication one of th |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Littell, Jonathan, 1967- Bienveillantes.
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Littell, Jonathan, 1967- -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Littell, Jonathan, 1967- fast |
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Bienveillantes (Littell, Jonathan) fast |
| Subject |
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Barjonet, Aurélie
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Razinsky, Liran
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| ISBN |
9789401208611 |
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9401208611 |
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