Performing a perpetrator as witness: Jonathan Littell's 'Les Bienveillantes'
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Performing a perpetrator as witness: Jonathan Littell's 'Les Bienveillantes'
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number809.93358/0041
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]08129d
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Columbus, Ohio, United States
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]The Ohio State University Press
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2012
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]pp99-119
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Article
[nb-NO]ISBN[nb-NO]9780814251829
NotesArticle from the book 'After testimony: the ethics and aesthetics of Holocaust narrative for the future' pp99-119
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
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