Performing a perpetrator as witness: Jonathan Littell's 'Les Bienveillantes'
TitrePerforming a perpetrator as witness: Jonathan Littell's 'Les Bienveillantes'
Auteur
Call number809.93358/0041
N° d'objet08129d
Lieu de publicationColumbus, Ohio, United States
Année de publication
2012
Paginationpp99-119
MatérielArticle
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
