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| Authors: | Daan Rutten: Utrecht University, Netherlands |
| Publication title: | Littell’s “The Kindly Ones” and the ‘Aesthetic Moment’ of Max Aue: A Socio-aesthetical Approach |
| Conference: | Current Issues in European Cultural Studies, June 15–17, Norrköping, Sweden 2011 |
| Publication type: | Abstract and Fulltext |
| Issue: | 062 |
| Article No.: | 049 |
| Abstract: | Almost three decades after the publication of ‘Male fantasies’, the fascinating cultural and psychological inquiry into the minds of German Freikorps officers in the interwar period by cultural sociologist Klaus Theweleit, the American-French author Jonathan Littell wrote the bestseller novel The Kindly Ones (original: Les Bienveillantes). The novel recounts the experiences of the fictional SS officer Max Aue and Littell is clearly well informed through former historical and cultural research, and especially through the research of Theweleit. Still, the novel The Kindly Ones rattled the cage after it was released in 2006. The book managed to win two important French awards, though multiple literary critics reviewed the book in shock, criticizing the novel with adjectives as monstrous and perverse. Why is the aesthetic fantasy, apparently, more forceful and appalling than the truth? |
| Language: | English |
| Year: | 2011 |
| No. of pages: | 10 |
| Pages: | 475-484 |
| ISBN: | 978-91-7519-993-1 |
| Series: | Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings |
| ISSN (print): | 1650-3686 |
| ISSN (online): | 1650-3740 |
| File: | http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/062/049/ecp11062049.pdf |
| Available: | 2011-11-22 |
| Publisher: | Linköping University Electronic Press, Linköpings universitet |
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