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Lädt ... Les Bienveillantes - Prix Goncourt et Prix du roman de l'Académie française 2006 (Original 2006; 2006. Auflage)von Jonathan Littell, Jonathan Littell (Auteur)
Werk-InformationenDie Wohlgesinnten von Jonathan Littell (2006)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Vyprávění přesvědčeného nacisty a důstojníka SS Maximiliena Aueho nás provede několika různými dějišti druhé světové války, na frontu, do okupovaných oblastí i do zázemí. Text je koncipován jako Aueho fiktivní memoáry sepsané dlouho po válce., Aue se v nich neobhajuje, nýbrž se snaží po svém vysvětlit, jak a proč funguje jedno malé kolečko v příšerné smrtící mašinérii. Wow! An extremely well written, horrible story of Max Aue, an officer in the German SS during WWII. (1941-45) An awful story but I couldn't quit reading it! It was written so beautifully. Max narrates his experiences and they are so believable (except he was at every important battle and knew so many 'important' people). Indeholder "Toccata", "Allemandes I og II", "Courante", "Sarabande", "Menuet (en rondeaux)", "Air", "Gigue", "Appendix - Ordforklaringer", "Appendix - Sideordnet liste over militære gradsbetegnelser". "Toccata" handler om ??? "Allemandes I og II" handler om ??? "Courante" handler om ??? "Sarabande" handler om ??? "Menuet (en rondeaux)" handler om ??? "Air" handler om ??? "Gigue" handler om ??? "Appendix- Ordforklaringer" handler om ??? "Appendix - Sideordnet liste over militære gradsbetegnelser" handler om ??? ??? When the The Kindly Ones came out a few years ago in France it sold millions and won some of Europe's most prestigious literary awards . I was surprised therefore, to read so many negative reviews when it was recently released here in the U.S. It seems people either loved it or hated it. Well add me to the list of those who loved it ! Yes, its dark, depressing, and in places, deranged to the point of perversion. But that's what makes it so fascinating. And I have no doubt, that in the future, this novel will be known as one of the seminal masterpieces of modern literature.
Some of these ambitions are brilliantly realized; others much less so. But all of them make Littell’s book a serious one, deserving of serious treatment. While some will denounce Littell’s cool-eyed authorial sympathy for Aue as “obscene”—and by “sympathy” I mean simply his attempt to comprehend the character—his project seems infinitely more valuable than the reflexive gesture of writing off all those millions of killers as “monsters” or “inhuman,” which allows us too easily to draw a solid line between “them” and “us.” [...] Aue is a human brother with whom we can sympathize (by which I mean, accept that he is not simply “inhuman”), or he is a sex-crazed, incestuous, homosexual, matricidal coprophage; but you can’t have your Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte and eat it, too. The novel’s gushing fans [...] seem to have mistaken perversity for daring, pretension for ambition, an odious stunt for contrarian cleverness. Willfully sensationalistic and deliberately repellent, “The Kindly Ones” [...] is an overstuffed suitcase of a book, consisting of an endless succession of scenes in which Jews are tortured, mutilated, shot, gassed or stuffed in ovens, intercut with an equally endless succession of scenes chronicling the narrator’s incestuous and sadomasochistic fantasies. The novel [...] reads like a pointless compilation of atrocities and anti-Semitic remarks, pointlessly combined with a gross collection of sexual fantasies. Notwithstanding the controversial subject matter, this is an extraordinarily powerful novel that leads the stunned reader through extremes of both realism and surrealism on an exhausting journey through some of the darkest recesses of European history. The Kindly Ones reveals something that is desperate and depressing but profoundly important, now as ever. Max Aue, the SS executioner, states the truth with typically brutal clarity: "I am a man like other men, I am a man like you." Littell has been very faithful to real events: his research is impressive [...] Littell, a Jew, rightly believes that the prime duty of a writer as well as a historian is to understand. He has succeeded in putting himself inside the tortured mind of his character. The Kindly Ones never descends into the sort of faction that is the curse of contemporary history [...] a great work of literary fiction, to which readers and scholars will turn for decades to come. The novel is diabolically (and I use the word advisedly) clever. It is also impressive, not merely as an act of impersonation but perhaps above all for the fiendish diligence with which it is carried out. [...] This tour de force, which not everyone will welcome, outclasses all other fictions and will continue to do so for some time to come. No summary can do it justice. Gehört zu VerlagsreihenGallimard, Folio (4685) AuszeichnungenBemerkenswerte Listen
Im Februar 2008 erschien im Berlin Verlag der Roman, den Jorge Semprun als »das Ereignis unserer Jahrhunderthälfte « bezeichnet: Die Wohlgesinnten von Jonathan Littell. Über Monate hielt er die deutsche Literaturkritik in Atem. Mit den fiktiven Lebenserinnerungen des SS-Obersturmführers Maximilian Aue, Jahrgang 1913, Sohn eines deutschen Vaters und einer französischen Mutter, zeichnet Jonathan Littell ein erschreckend detailgenaues Bild des Zweiten Weltkriegs und der Verfolgung und Vernichtung der Juden durch die Nationalsozialisten aus Sicht eines Täters. »Das ist ein Roman, und das ist ein Autor, vor denen man sich verneigen muss«, schrieb Andreas Isenschmid in der NZZ am Sonntag. Die Wohlgesinnten erscheint im Oktober 2009 im Berliner Taschenbuch Verlag. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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