Performing a perpetrator as witness: Jonathan Littell's 'Les Bienveillantes'
TitoloPerforming a perpetrator as witness: Jonathan Littell's 'Les Bienveillantes'
Autore
Call number809.93358/0041
Numero oggetto08129d
Luogo di pubblicazioneColumbus, Ohio, United States
Anno di pubblicazione
2012
Paginazionepp99-119
MaterialeArticle
ISBN9780814251829
NotesArticle from the book 'After testimony: the ethics and aesthetics of Holocaust narrative for the future' pp99-119
Descrizione
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