Writing the holocaust today : critical perspectives on Jonathan Littell's The kindly ones / edited by Aurélie Barjonet and Liran Razinsky.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.

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.

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