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

Copyright

Marielle Lucie Clément

Published On

2010-04-01

ISBN

Paperback978-1-906924-22-5
Hardback978-1-906924-21-8
PDF978-1-906924-23-2
HTML978-1-80064-433-5

Language

  • French

Print Length

352 pages (vii+345)

Dimensions

Paperback156 x 19 x 234 mm(6.14" x 0.73" x 9.21")
Hardback156 x 21 x 234 mm(6.14" x 0.81" x 9.21")

Weight

Paperback1091g (38.48oz)
Hardback1477g (52.10oz)

Media

Illustrations3

OCLC Number

1086407706

LCCN

2019452805

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

Les Bienveillantes de Jonathan Littell

Études réunies par Murielle Lucie Clément

  • Murielle Lucie Clément (editor)
Les 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.

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