Performing a perpetrator as witness: Jonathan Littell's 'Les Bienveillantes'
TitelPerforming a perpetrator as witness: Jonathan Littell's 'Les Bienveillantes'
Forfatter
Call number809.93358/0041
Objektnummer08129d
UdgivelsesstedColumbus, Ohio, United States
Udgivelsesår
2012
Pagineringpp99-119
MaterialeArticle
ISBN9780814251829
NoterArticle from the book 'After testimony: the ethics and aesthetics of Holocaust narrative for the future' pp99-119
Beskrivelse
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