LEADER 03118cam a2200421 a 4500001 7092653 003 hubpceuo 005 20190731091318.0 008 080710s2009 nyu 000 1 eng 020 9780061353451 020 0061353450 040 DLC |cDLC |dYDX |dBTCTA |dBAKER |dYDXCP |dWAU |dOrLoB-B 041 1 eng |hfre 050 00 PQ3939.L58 |bB513 2009 082 00 843/.92 |222 100 1 Littell, Jonathan, |d1967- 240 10 Bienveillantes. |lEnglish 245 14 The kindly ones : |ba novel / |cJonathan Littell ; translated by Charlotte Mandell. 250 1st ed. 260 New York : |bHarper, |cc2009. 300 983 p. ; |c24 cm. 520 1 ""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, Goring, Speer, Heyrich, Hoss, 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?"--BOOK JACKET. 586 Prix Goncourt, 2006. 586 Grand Prix du roman, 2006. 610 20 Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. |bSchutzstaffel |vFiction. 610 20 Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. |bEinsatzgruppen des Sicherheitsdienstes und der Sicherheitspolizei |vFiction. 650 0 Nazis |vFiction. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xAtrocities |vFiction. 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |vFiction. 650 0 Bisexual men |zGermany |vFiction. 655 0 Historical fiction. 700 1 Mandell, Charlotte |etranslator 942 |2ddc |cBK 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6843_920000000000000_LIT |70 |8REF |919411OSA |bOSA |d2011-12-12 |eOSA |l0 |o843/.92 LIT |r2011-12-12 |t1 |w2011-12-12 |yBK |cReference 920 01 KXM14mX7 992 01 843_920000000000000_LIT |bRVW_QXZZZZZZZZZZZZZ_EH6 966 |cIn the Research Room