An edition of The kindly ones (2009)

The kindly ones

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An edition of The kindly ones (2009)

The kindly ones

a novel

  • 5.0 (1 rating) ·
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Dr Max Aue is a family man and owner of a lace factory in post-war France. He is an intellectual steeped in philosophy, literature, and classical music. He is also a former SS intelligence officer and cold-blooded assassin. He was an observer and then a participant in Nazi atrocities on the Eastern Front, he was present at the siege of Stalingrad, at the death camps, and finally caught up in the overthrow of the Nazis and the nightmarish fall of Berlin. His world was peopled by Eichmann, Himmler, G_ring, Speer and, of course, Hitler himself. Max is looking back at his life with cool-eyed precision; he is speaking out now to set the record straight.

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Chatto & Windus
Language
English
Pages
983

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Cover of: The kindly ones
The kindly ones: a novel
2009, Harper
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: The kindly ones
The kindly ones: a novel
2009, Chatto & Windus
in English
Cover of: The Kindly Ones
The Kindly Ones
2009, HarperCollins
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Edition Notes

Translated from the French.

Published in
London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
843.92
Library of Congress
PQ3939.L58 B513 2009, PQ3939.L58

The Physical Object

Pagination
983 pages
Number of pages
983

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32112771M
Internet Archive
kindlyonesnovel0000litt
ISBN 10
0701181656, 0701181664
ISBN 13
9780701181659, 9780701181666
OCLC/WorldCat
276648065

Work Description

"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? 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.

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