Reading Nazi Memory in Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes Debarati Sanyal What is the cultural significance of Jonathan Littell's monumental Les Bienveillantes (2006) within the "era of the witness"?1 While ... the rise and fall of the Third Reich, Les Bienveillantes compels its readers to enter into the psyche ... given the sheer volume and documentary specificity of Les Bienveillantes, Aue's alleged conte moral functions much like ...
Tópico(s): Literature and Cultural Memory
2010 - Johns Hopkins University Press | L'esprit créateur/L'Esprit créateur
... On the German Reaction to Jonathan Littell's Les bienveillantes Klaus Theweleit Klaus Theweleit Search for other works ... On the German Reaction to Jonathan Littell's Les bienveillantes. New German Critique 1 February 2009; 36 (1 ( ... Jonathan Littell's 2006 novel about the Holocaust, Les bienveillantes. Littell's German critics largely panned the book ... into the Holocaust. It is the departure of Les bienveillantes from “the novelistic aesthetic of the nineteenth century” ...
2009 - Duke University Press | New German Critique
... years after World War II, Jonathan Littell's Les bienveillantes, published in France in 2006, became the biggest ... quite hostile. In this essay I argue that Les bienveillantes accomplishes a rare, indeed a totally original, feat: ... moral—witness of the Holocaust. Whether one admires Les bienveillantes or loathes it depends largely on how one ...
Tópico(s): Italian Fascism and Post-war Society
2009 - Duke University Press | New German Critique
... The publication and reception of his provocative novel, Les Bienveillantes, was one of the most significant literary events ... comes to mind is the historical novel. Yet, Les Bienveillantes cannot be precisely described as such. What I ... regard to each of these two genres that Les Bienveillantes, in fact, constitutes a new twist, an inversion, ...
Tópico(s): Schopenhauer and Stefan Zweig
2008 - University of Nebraska Press | French forum
Tópico(s): Historical and Literary Analyses
2007 - Éditions Gallimard | Le Débat
The article focuses on Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes (2006) which it regards as part of an emerging cluster of French- and German-language ‘Nazi perpetrator fictions’ published from the mid-1990s ... on ‘thinking’ and judgment. L'article porte sur Les Bienveillantes (2006) de Jonathan Littell, ouvrage que nous considérons comme appartenant à un groupement de textes de langues française et allemande qui représentent des bourreaux nazis; groupement de textes dont il est possible d'observer l'émergence depuis le milieu des années 90. Le rapport entre éthique ...
Tópico(s): Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy
2010 - Taylor & Francis | Modern & Contemporary France
... les communautés de brevets sont évaluées de façon bienveillante, les pratiques unilatérales (Art. 82 Traité CE), notamment les ...
Tópico(s): Innovation Policy and R&D
2010 - | Revue internationale de droit économique
... effet justifie si le sujet de l'intervention bienveillante eprouve le besoin d'exprimer sa reconnaissance. Mais l'assentiment ...
Tópico(s): Political Theory and Influence
1994 - Florida State University | Social Theory and Practice
Nombre de réflexions contemporaines sur l’autorité se concluent sur le constat d’une contradiction entre la nécessaire « asymétrie » décrite par Arendt comme inhérente à la relation d’autorité et la symétrie en droit des rapports interindividuels. Parce qu’il fut conçu et pensé sciemment comme tel, le rôle de directeur d’école dans le premier degré, dans la manière dont il se conçoit et s’exerce, dont il se ressent et demeure, offre un passionnant panorama de réponses apportées à ce paradoxe fameux : « ...
Tópico(s): Social Policies and Family
2018 - Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée | Éducation et socialisation
... Dr E. D. van Oort; au premier, pour les bienveillantes attentions dont j'ai ete l'objet, durant ...
Tópico(s): Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies
1930 - Naturalis Biodiversity Center | Zoölogische mededelingen/Zo¨ologische mededelingen
Richard J. Golsan, Susan Rubín Suleiman,
... becomes the Witness: Reflections on Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes,” plenary talk at the Twentieth- and Twenty-First ...
Tópico(s): French Literature and Critical Theory
2008 - Routledge | Contemporary French and Francophone Studies
... dans le bunker».Comme indiqué plus haut, dans Les Bienveillantes, Jonathan Littell donne la parole à un bourreau ... de Littell sous prétexte qu'il s'intitule Les Bienveillantes, mais ne reflète qu'une infime partie de ... portion de la critique l'aurait laissé croire.Les Bienveillantes, à l'encontre de plusieurs ouvrages sur l'expérience des camps de concentration donne la voix au bourreau.Cette position, jusqu'à présent tabouisée de l'univers concentrationnaire est commentée par Julie Delorme.Max Aue raconte ce qu'il a vu et entendu; il exprime ses opinions sur les événements entourant le génocide.Son discours fait appel ...
Tópico(s): Cultural Insights and Digital Impacts
2007 - Presses Universitaires De France | Revue française de psychanalyse
Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes , the fictional autobiography of an incestuous SS officer, is one of the most controversial novels published in the last ... concoction. Far from simply propagating a revisionist ideology, Les Bienveillantes combines much factual information with a high degree ...
Tópico(s): Narrative Theory and Analysis
2012 - Cambridge University Press | PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America
... parole dans l’espace ouvert par une écoute bienveillante, le sens de la décision peut se construire et ...
Tópico(s): Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues
2010 - | Laennec
... il esquisse l’analyse d’un fragment de Les bienveillantes de Littell pour éclairer l’articulation complexe des ...
Tópico(s): Military, Security, and Education Studies
2009 - Tel Aviv University | Argumentation et analyse du discours
... examines Jonathan Littell's novel The Kindly Ones (Les bienveillantes) as a project of bearing witness. It turns ...
Tópico(s): Violence, Religion, and Philosophy
2010 - Duke University Press | Modern Language Quarterly
Tópico(s): Classical Antiquity Studies
2007 - Éditions Gallimard | Le Débat
Jakob Lothe, Susan Rubín Suleiman, James E. Phelan,
... Performing a perpetrator as witness : Jonathan Littell's Les bienveillantes / Susan Rubin Suleiman ; The ethics and aesthetics of ...
Tópico(s): Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
2012 - Association of College and Research Libraries | Choice Reviews Online
... two contributions are devoted to Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes: Nadia Louar's smart essay argues that Littell' ...
Tópico(s): Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
2012 - Oxford University Press | French Studies
... argument is developed by analysing Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes (2006, The Kindly Ones ), which has created a ...
Tópico(s): Philosophy, History, and Historiography
2015 - Wiley | Orbis Litterarum
Jonathan Littell's novel Les Bienveillantes (The Kindly Ones) is challenging in both its subject and approach. Purporting to be the memoirs of SS-officer Miximilen ...
Tópico(s): Contemporary Literature and Criticism
2014 - Oxford University Press | The Cambridge Quarterly
... Le Roi des aulnes de Michel Tournier et Les Bienveillantes de Jonathan Littell, en particulier en ce qui concerne les conséquences du ‘choix structurel fondateur qui consiste à ...
Tópico(s): French Literature and Critical Theory
2014 - Oxford University Press | French Studies
... remercie Clement Gerome pour sa lecture minutieuse et bienveillante de mon ouvrage, le compte-rendu qu’il en donne est tres ...
Tópico(s): Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender
2011 - OpenEdition Journals | Lectures
Tópico(s): Political and Social Issues
2008 - Editions Rationalistes | Raison présente
... and the Jews and Jonathan Littell's novel Les Bienveillantes (The Kindly Ones) , the former of which focuses ...
Tópico(s): Rhetoric and Communication Studies
2011 - Wiley | History and Theory
... as Imagined by an American:Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes Sara Kippur It seems somewhat counter-intuitive, given ... financial terms,"1 then why would Littell write Les Bienveillantes and not The Kindly Ones? Given the deliberately ... from his one English-language publication that preceded Les Bienveillantes, a commissioned science fiction book for which he ... language choice informs our reading of the novel. Les Bienveillantes has received far more praise in France than ... Portage to San Cristobal of A. H. (1981), Les Bienveillantes follows a former SS officer, Max Aue, as ...
Tópico(s): German Literature and Culture Studies
2010 - Johns Hopkins University Press | L'esprit créateur/L'Esprit créateur
... published with Gallimard a 900-page historical novel, Les Bienveillantes, chronicling in graphic and often shocking detail the ... SS officer, the fictional Maximilian Aue. The title, "Les Bienveillantes" is the French term for the Eumenides—thus ... Claude Lanzmann. (After his initial critical review of Les Bienveillantes, Lanzmann was apparently "converted" by a private conversation ... the in-house review of Gallimard, and that Les Bienveillantes was a huge commercial success for Gallimard, suggests ... of novel and novelist, other hostile assessments of Les Bienveillantes and Littell were more comprehensive. In their book ...
Tópico(s): German History and Society
2010 - University of Wisconsin Press | SubStance
Główną postacią Les Bienveillantes jest Hauptsturmführer Max Aue, doktora prawa, inspektor SD, wywiadu SS, człowiek przesiąknięty kulturą humanizmu, władający starożytną greką, jak ... również została wydana przez Gallimard na rok przed Les Bienveillantes). W powieści Littella homoseksualizm jednego z głównych bohaterów ...
Tópico(s): Central European Literary Studies
2007 - | Zagłada Żydów Studia i Materiały
... hommes, alors que c’est l’inverse pour les attitudes bienveillantes. Comme attendu egalement, l’etude 2 a montre que le sexisme hostile predit des attributions moins favorables pour ...
Tópico(s): Social and Intergroup Psychology
2013 - | International Review of Social Psychology
Une neutralité bienveillante : les Pays-Bas au chevet des enfants du nord de la France D’aucuns en France, dès avant la ...
Tópico(s): Cultural Identity and Heritage
2004 - Presses Universitaires De France | Guerres mondiales et conflits contemporains