Writing the Holocaust Today : Critical Perspectives on Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones


Aurelie. Barjonet
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel
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Amsterdam : : Editions Rodopi, , 2012.
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1 online resource (257 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - 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""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. - 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
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