Performing a perpetrator as witness: Jonathan Littell's 'Les Bienveillantes'
TitlePerforming a perpetrator as witness: Jonathan Littell's 'Les Bienveillantes'
Author
Call number809.93358/0041
Object number08129d
Place of publicationColumbus, Ohio, United States
PublisherThe Ohio State University Press
Year of publication
2012
Physical descriptionpp99-119
MaterialArticle
ISBN9780814251829
NotesArticle from the book 'After testimony: the ethics and aesthetics of Holocaust narrative for the future' pp99-119
Description
Sets out to capture the pyschology and motivations of those who participated actively in the Nazi genocide. Analyzes the aesthetics and ethical performances of Littell and his first-person narrator, a former SS officer who looks back on his particpation in the Holocaust and World War II
