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Faux titre, 0167-9392 ; 381 |
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Faux titre ;
381.
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| Subject |
Littell, Jonathan, 1967- Bienveillantes.
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Littell, Jonathan, 1967- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
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| Alt Name |
Barjonet, Aurélie.
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Razinsky, Liran.
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| Description |
1 online resource (265 pages). |
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polychrome rdacc |
| Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references and 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. |
| 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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| ISBN |
9789401208611 (electronic bk.) |
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9401208611 (electronic bk.) |
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9789042035867 (paperback) |
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9042035862 (paperback) |
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9781283868594 (MyiLibrary) |
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1283868598 (MyiLibrary) |
| OCLC # |
824729195 |
| Additional Format |
Print version: Writing the holocaust today. Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2012 9789042035867 (OCoLC)821687336 |
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