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Les Bienveillantes de Jonathan Littell: Études réunies par Murielle Lucie Clément

  • Murielle Lucie Clément (editor)
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TitleLes Bienveillantes de Jonathan Littell
SubtitleÉtudes réunies par Murielle Lucie Clément
ContributorMurielle Lucie Clément (editor)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0006
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0006
Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
CopyrightMarielle Lucie Clément
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Publication placeCambridge, UK
Published on2010-04-01
ISBN978-1-906924-22-5 (Paperback)
978-1-906924-21-8 (Hardback)
978-1-906924-23-2 (PDF)
978-1-80064-433-5 (HTML)
Short abstractLes 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. In the first academic study of this controversial best-seller, twenty-one leading scholars discuss the aesthetics, themes and characters of the novel, as well as formal aspects of Littell’s writing. Offering a highly varied range of approaches, they tackle ideas around parricide, genocide, anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, as well as Littell’s portrayal of historical and fictional characters.
Long abstractLes 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.
Print length352 pages (vii+345)
LanguageFrench (Original)
Dimensions156 x 19 x 234 mm | 6.14" x 0.73" x 9.21" (Paperback)
156 x 21 x 234 mm | 6.14" x 0.81" x 9.21" (Hardback)
Weight1091g | 38.48oz (Paperback)
1477g | 52.10oz (Hardback)
Media3 illustrations
OCLC Number1086407706
LCCN2019452805
BIC
  • DSK
  • 2ADF
BISAC
  • LIT004150
LCC
  • PQ3939.L58
Keywords
  • French literature
  • French novel
  • Les Bienveillantes
  • The Kindly Ones
  • Maximilien Aue
  • Jonathan Littell
  • Holocaust
  • World War II
  • Second World War
  • Nazism
  • Judaism
  • anti-Semitism
  • history and fiction
Contents
  • Antoine Jurga
  • Bruno Viard
  • Dominique Bocage-Lefebvre

La Shoah en flânant?

(pp. 171–184)
  • J. Marina Davies

Un langage impossible

(pp. 231–244)
  • Serge Zenkine
  • Yves Boisseleau
  • Sabine van Wesemael

Introduction

(pp. 1–10)
  • Murielle Lucie Clément