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oapen-20.500.12657-303142024-03-25T09:51:32Z Les Bienveillantes de Jonathan Littell Lucie Clément, Murielle anti-semitism second world war french novel maximilien aue history and fiction the kindly ones french literature holocaust judaism les bienveillantes nazism world war ii jonathan littell thema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2A Indo-European languages::2AD Romance, Italic and Rhaeto-Romanic languages::2ADF French thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Les Bienveillantes (The Kindly Ones), caused a literary sensation in 2006. Described as "deliberately repellent" by The New York Times, Jonathan Littell’s novel tells the story of World War II through the eyes of former SS officer Maximilien Aue. This is the first academic study of this controversial, best-selling work.Twenty-one leading scholars discuss the aesthetics, themes and characters of the novel, as well as formal aspects of Littell’s writing. They tackle ideas surrounding parricide, genocide, ant-Semitism and the Holocaust as well as Littell’s portrayal of both historical and fictional characters. The collection offers a deeply varied range of approaches to Littell’s work and is essential reading for anyone interested in representations of World War II, the Holocaust and contemporary French literature. All the essays in this collection are written in French. 2018-04-03 00:00:00 2020-04-01T12:51:20Z 2020-04-01T12:51:20Z 2010 book 646697 OCN: 823770992 9781906924225 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30314 fre application/pdf n/a 646697.pdf http://www.openbookpublishers.com/reader/57 Open Book Publishers 10.11647/OBP.0006 10.11647/OBP.0006 23117811-c361-47b4-8b76-2c9b160c9a8b 9781906924225 ScholarLed 344 open access
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Les Bienveillantes (The Kindly Ones), caused a literary sensation in 2006. Described as "deliberately repellent" by The New York Times, Jonathan Littell’s novel tells the story of World War II through the eyes of former SS officer Maximilien Aue. This is the first academic study of this controversial, best-selling work.Twenty-one leading scholars discuss the aesthetics, themes and characters of the novel, as well as formal aspects of Littell’s writing. They tackle ideas surrounding parricide, genocide, ant-Semitism and the Holocaust as well as Littell’s portrayal of both historical and fictional characters. The collection offers a deeply varied range of approaches to Littell’s work and is essential reading for anyone interested in representations of World War II, the Holocaust and contemporary French literature. All the essays in this collection are written in French.
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