Performing a perpetrator as witness: Jonathan Littell's 'Les Bienveillantes'
TítuloPerforming a perpetrator as witness: Jonathan Littell's 'Les Bienveillantes'
Autor
Call number809.93358/0041
Número del objeto08129d
Lugar de publicaciónColumbus, Ohio, United States
EditorialThe Ohio State University Press
Año de publicación
2012
Paginaciónpp99-119
MaterialArticle
ISBN9780814251829
NotesArticle from the book 'After testimony: the ethics and aesthetics of Holocaust narrative for the future' pp99-119
Descripción
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