TY  - BOOK
ED  - Lucie Clément, Murielle
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.11647/OBP.0006
ID  - OAPEN ID: 646697
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 823770992
KW  - anti-semitism
KW  - second world war
KW  - french novel
KW  - maximilien aue
KW  - history and fiction
KW  - the kindly ones
KW  - french literature
KW  - holocaust
KW  - judaism
KW  - les bienveillantes
KW  - nazism
KW  - world war ii
KW  - jonathan littell
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/861e6340-6aa8-484f-94b1-78505df27142/646697.pdf
LA  - French
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30314
PB  - Open Book Publishers
PY  - 2010
SN  - 9781906924225
TI  - Les Bienveillantes de Jonathan Littell : Études réunies par Murielle Lucie Clément
ER  - 
