Writing the Holocaust today : critical perspectives on Jonathan Littell's The kindly ones

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

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Barjonet, Aurélie (Editor) Razinsky, Lirian (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam [u.a.] : Rodopi, 2012
Series:	Faux titre 381
Subjects:	Littell, Jonathan Aufsatzsammlung Judenvernichtung <Motiv>
Contents/pieces:	14 records
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. A German Reading of the German Reception of "The Kindly Ones"

2. The Perpetrator as a Totalitarian Subject: Allegiance and Guilt in "The Kindly Ones"

3. A Historian's View of "The Kindly Ones"

4. Adelphic Incest in Musil, Nabokow, and Littell

5. From 'Kitsch' to 'Splatter': The Aesthetics of Violence in "The Kindly Ones"

6. La bienveillance de la critique polonaise. An Analysis of the Polish Recepetion of "Les Bienveillantes"

7. "Oh my human brothers, let me tell you how it happened." (Who is the Perpeprator Talking To?)

8. The infamous 'I': Notes on Littell and Céline

9. "The Kindly Ones" and the 'Scorched-Earth' Principle

10. 'Morality' and 'Humanness': Reading Littell with Speer, Fest, Syberberg and Others

11. Visbility and Iconicity of the German Language in "The Kindly Ones"

12. How Nazis Undermine their Own Point of View

13. Manufacturing Memories: Textual and Mnemonic Weaving in "The Kindly Ones"

14. The Similarity of Perpetrators