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008			091903s2009 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a2008030788
020			_a9780061353451
050	0	0	_aPQ3939.L58 _bB513 2009
082	0	0	_aFIC LIT
100	1		_aLittell, Jonathan, 1967-
240	1	0	_aBienveillantes _l. English
245	1	4	_aThe kindly ones _b: a novel _c/ Jonathan Littell ; translated by Charlotte Mandell
250			_a1st ed
260			_aNew York, N.Y. _b: Harper _c, 2009.
300			_a983 p. _c; 24 cm.
520			_a"Oh my human brothers, let me tell you how it happened." So begins the chilling fictional memoir of Dr. Maximilien Aue, a former Nazi officer who has reinvented himself, many years after the war, as a middle-class family man and factory owner in France.Max is an intellectual steeped in philosophy, literature, and classical music. He is also a cold-blooded assassin and the consummate bureaucrat. Through the eyes of this cultivated yet monstrous man, we experience in disturbingly precise detail the horrors of the Second World War and the Nazi genocide of the Jews. During the period from June 1941 through April 1945, Max is posted to Poland, the Ukraine, and the Caucasus; he is present at the Battle of Stalingrad and at Auschwitz; and he lives through the chaos of the final days of the Nazi regime in Berlin. Although Max is a totally imagined character, his world is peopled by real historical figures, such as Eichmann, Himmler, G_ring, Speer, Heyrich, H_ss, and Hitler himself.A supreme historical epic and a haunting work of fiction, Jonathan Littell's masterpiece is intense, hallucinatory, and utterly original. Published to impressive critical acclaim in France in 2006, it went on to win the Prix Goncourt, that country's most prestigious literary award, and sparked a broad range of responses and questions from readers: How does fiction deal with the nature of human evil? How should a novel encompass the Holocaust? At what point do history and fiction come together and where do they separate?A provocative and controversial work of literature, The Kindly Ones is a morally challenging read; it holds up a mirror to humanity-and the reader cannot look away.
610	2	4	_aNationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel _x--Fiction.
650		4	_aNazi _x--Fiction
650		4	_aHolocaust, Jewish, 1939-1945 _x--Fiction
650			_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _x-Atrocities _v--Fiction
650			_aBisexual men _z-Germany _v--Fiction
655		7	_aHistorical fiction
700	1		_aMandell, Charlotte
942			_cMO
999			_c227325 _d227325