Writing the holocaust today : : critical perspectives on Jonathan Littell's the Kindly Ones / / edited by Aurelie Barjonet and Liran Razinsky.

• Superior document: Faux titre, 381
• TeilnehmendeR: Barjonet, Aurelie.; Razinsky, Liran.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Faux Titre 381.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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 the most significant literary phenomena of recent year...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Introduction
• Adelphic Incest in Musil, Nabokov, and Littell / Georges Nivat
• From “Kitsch to Splatter”: The Aesthetics of Violence in The Kindly Ones / Peter Kuon
• The Similarity of Perpetrators / Liran Razinsky
• Visibility and Iconicity of the German Language in The Kindly Ones / Cyril Aslanov
• “Oh my human brothers, let me tell you how it happened.” (Who is the Perpetrator Talking To?) / Catherine Coquio
• How Nazis Undermine their Own Point of View. Irony and Reliability in The Kindly Ones / Luc Rasson
• Manufacturing Memories: Textual and Mnemonic Weaving in The Kindly Ones / Aurélie Barjonet
• The infamous “I”: Notes on Littell and Céline / Martin von Koppenfels
• The Kindly Ones and the “Scorched Earth” Principle / Leona Toker
• The Perpetrator as a Totalitarian Subject: Allegiance and Guilt in The Kindly Ones / Sandra Janßen
• A Historian’s View of The Kindly Ones / Jeremy D. Popkin
• “Morality” and “Humanness”: Reading Littell with Speer, Fest, Syberberg and Others / Hans-Joachim Hahn
• A German Reading of the German Reception of The Kindly Ones / Wolfgang Asholt
• La bienveillance de la critique polonaise. An Analysis of the Polish Reception of The Kindly Ones / Helena Duffy
• Index.