The kindly ones : a novel / Jonathan Littell ; translated by Charlotte Mandell
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: New York : Harper, c2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 983 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780061353451 (hbk.)
- 0061353450 (hbk.)
- 9780061724473 (international ed.)
- 0061724475 (international ed.)
- Bienveillantes. English
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel -- Fiction
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Einsatzgruppen des Sicherheitsdienstes und der Sicherheitspolizei -- Fiction
- Nazis -- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Fiction
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Fiction
- Bisexual men -- Germany -- Fiction
- 843/.92 22
- PQ3939.L58 .B513 2009
- PQ3939.L58 B513 2009
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Originally published as: Les beinveillantes. Paris : Éditions Gallimard, 2006
Received the Literary Review's Bad Sex in Fiction Award for the year 2009
Fictional memoir of Dr. Max Aue, a former Nazi officer who survived the war and has reinvented himself, many years later, as a middle-class entrepreneur and family man in northern France. Max is an intellectual steeped in philosophy, literature, and classical music. He is also a cold-blooded assassin and the consummate bureaucrat. Through the eyes of this cultivated yet monstrous man, we experience the horrors of the Second World War and the Nazi genocide of the Jews in graphic, disturbingly precise detail from the dark and disturbing point of view of the executioner rather than the victim. During the period from June 1941 through April 1945, Max is posted to Poland, the Ukraine, and the Caucasus; he is present at the Battle of Stalingrad, at Auschwitz and Cracow; he visits occupied Paris and lives through the chaos of the final days of the Nazi regime in Berlin. Although Max is a totally imagined character, his world is peopled by real historical figures, such as Eichmann, Himmler, Goring, Speer, Heydrich, Hoss, and Hitler himself
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