Journal article
Out of the Past: The Perpetrator Portrait as Literary and Historical Exercise
Yale French studies, Vol.121(121), pp.185-203
01/01/2012
Abstract
Readers of Jonathan Littell's 2006 novel, Les Bienveillantes (The Kindly Ones), often single out depictions of violence and sexual behavior throughout the self-portrait of its first-person narrator, SS (Stutzstaffel, "protection squadron") officer Maximilien Aue, as a provocation and insult to the memory of victims of World War II. The filmmaker and writer Claude Lanzmann has engaged Les Bienveillantes with the attention one might expect from a man who had devoted years to the making of Shoah (1985). Here, Ungar examines the literary and historical exercise in Les Bienveillantes.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Out of the Past: The Perpetrator Portrait as Literary and Historical Exercise
- Creators
- Steven Ungar
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Yale French studies, Vol.121(121), pp.185-203
- Publisher
- Yale University
- ISSN
- 0044-0078
- eISSN
- 2325-8691
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2012
- Academic Unit
- Cinematic Arts; French and Italian
- Record Identifier
- 9984397923302771
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