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History, Excess and Testimony in Jonathan Littell’s Les Bienveillantes

French Forum, 2008
"Freres humains, laissez-moi vous raconter comment ca s'est passe. 'On n'est pas votre frere, retorquerez-vous, et on ne veut pas le savoir.'''(2) Thus begin the memoirs of Maximilian Aue, an ex-SS officer, intellectual, and doctor of political law, recounting, in 1970s France, his experience of the Second World War. "Il s'est passe beaucoup de choses,"
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Kommissbrot : Jonathan Littell's Glossary

MLN - Modern Language Notes, 2010
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On the German Reaction to Jonathan Littell's Les bienveillantes

New German Critique, 2009
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5. Reading Nazi Memory in Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones

2020
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Das Furchtbare erkennen – Über Jonathan Littell „Die Wohlgesinnten“

Jahrbuch Der Juristischen Zeitgeschichte, 2011
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3 ‘Fascism’ as Excess and Abjection: Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones

2013
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Forgetting Auschwitz: Jonathan Littell and the Death of a Beautiful Woman

American Literary History, 2013
In 2006, while Laurent Binet was working on HHhH (2010; the title is an acronym for Himmlers Him heist Heydrich, the name of Hitler’s brain is Heydrich and the subject of the book is Heydrich’s assassination by the Czech resistance), Jonathan Littell’s book Les Bienveillantes (2006; published in English as The Kindly Ones [2009]) appeared.
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À Propos des Bienveillantes de Jonathan Littell

Les Lettres de la SPF, 2008
En inscrivant son œuvre sous un autre regard « de l’intérieur » du monde des bourreaux, Jonathan Littell décrit tout autant les manipulations possibles de l’Histoire que les effets dans le Réel de la Loi symbolique dévoyée.
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A history of images or an image of history? Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones

Memory Studies, 2010
First published in France in 2006, Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones (2009) has re-sparked an ongoing debate regarding the Holocaust and the limits of representation. A fictional memoir written from the point of view of a German perpetrator, The Kindly Ones recounts a quasi-odyssey through Europe during the Second World War, thereby vividly exposing ...
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Reading (as) Violence in Jonathan Littell’sThe Kindly Ones

Holocaust Studies, 2011
Representations of the perpetrator’s perspective in Holocaust literature are often controversial, as is evident in the debate surrounding Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones, a recent novel written from the perspective of an SS officer. This essay examines more closely both the capacity of Littell’s novel to unsettle readers and the ethical status of ...
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