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Cargando... The kindly ones : a novel (2006 original; edición 2010)por Jonathan Littell
Información de la obraLas benévolas por Jonathan Littell (2006)
  
Unread books (38) EU Fiction: 1950-2022 (167) » 4 más Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.   Natt90 | Jan 17, 2023 |   ) Elenagdd | Apr 17, 2019 | El autor es hijo de otro escritor, Robert Littell. Sus inquietudes le llevan a colaborar durante siete años con la ONG, Acción contra el hambre, particularmente en Bosnia Herzegobina, pero también en Chechenia, Afganistan, el Congo e incluso Moscú. En 2001 cesa en estas actividades y se dedica a escribir ésta, su primera novela. Basada en la segunda guerra mundial y concretamente en el frente del Este, narra las memorias imaginarias de un culto oficial alemán de las SS, Maximilian Aue, que participó activamente en los hechos que dieron lugar al Holocausto y otras atrocidades. El personaje, en los últimos años de existencia, no se siente arrepentido ni trata de justificar lo ocurrido. La historia abarca toda la vida de este oficial, desde su niñez a su paso por el frente, los campos de exterminio y sus experiencias de todo tipo. Lo que se narra se hace desde el punto de vista del verdugo, no desde el de las victimas. Para Littell "cuando la forma se ve desde ésta óptica, la del ejecutor, los procesos son iguales para todo el mundo, tanto para los nazis, como para cualquier soldado de la nacionalidad que sea". El título de la novela remite a "las Erinias, del mito de Orestes". Como aquellas que persiguen a los criminales hasta el final, también al personaje lo persiguen los cazanazis. Probablemente una de las cosas más impactantes que nos debe dejar la lectura del libro, es que la cultura en si misma no nos ampara de poder cometer las mayores atrocidades. Los nazis no eran un grupo carente de cultura. Admiraban a los mejores compositores musicales del mundo, a los más grandes escritores y filósofos; a todos los que habían engrandecido el arte y saber humano, y aún así, fueron capaces de llevar a término atrocidades que aún hoy, con lo que después ha pasado en otros muchos lugares, no deja de impresionarnos y horrorizarnos. posiblemente por su planificación y sistemática ejecución, y la cercanía geográfica. Al final del libro esperamos añadir comentarios sobre su contenido, que parece no ha dejado indiferentes a personas de la talla de Jorge Semprún o Vargas LLosa. biblioforum | Apr 28, 2012 |  ) LilianaL | Aug 28, 2010 | ) tonyhp | Feb 27, 2010 |
 Some of these ambitions are brilliantly realized; others much less so. But all of them make Littell’s book a serious one, deserving of serious treatment. While some will denounce Littell’s cool-eyed authorial sympathy for Aue as “obscene”—and by “sympathy” I mean simply his attempt to comprehend the character—his project seems infinitely more valuable than the reflexive gesture of writing off all those millions of killers as “monsters” or “inhuman,” which allows us too easily to draw a solid line between “them” and “us.” [...] Aue is a human brother with whom we can sympathize (by which I mean, accept that he is not simply “inhuman”), or he is a sex-crazed, incestuous, homosexual, matricidal coprophage; but you can’t have your Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte and eat it, too.  The novel’s gushing fans [...] seem to have mistaken perversity for daring, pretension for ambition, an odious stunt for contrarian cleverness. Willfully sensationalistic and deliberately repellent, “The Kindly Ones” [...] is an overstuffed suitcase of a book, consisting of an endless succession of scenes in which Jews are tortured, mutilated, shot, gassed or stuffed in ovens, intercut with an equally endless succession of scenes chronicling the narrator’s incestuous and sadomasochistic fantasies. The novel [...] reads like a pointless compilation of atrocities and anti-Semitic remarks, pointlessly combined with a gross collection of sexual fantasies. Notwithstanding the controversial subject matter, this is an extraordinarily powerful novel that leads the stunned reader through extremes of both realism and surrealism on an exhausting journey through some of the darkest recesses of European history. The Kindly Ones reveals something that is desperate and depressing but profoundly important, now as ever. Max Aue, the SS executioner, states the truth with typically brutal clarity: "I am a man like other men, I am a man like you."  Littell has been very faithful to real events: his research is impressive [...] Littell, a Jew, rightly believes that the prime duty of a writer as well as a historian is to understand. He has succeeded in putting himself inside the tortured mind of his character. The Kindly Ones never descends into the sort of faction that is the curse of contemporary history [...] a great work of literary fiction, to which readers and scholars will turn for decades to come. The novel is diabolically (and I use the word advisedly) clever. It is also impressive, not merely as an act of impersonation but perhaps above all for the fiendish diligence with which it is carried out. [...] This tour de force, which not everyone will welcome, outclasses all other fictions and will continue to do so for some time to come. No summary can do it justice. Pertenece a las series editorialesColección Folio (4685) PremiosListas de sobresalientes
Fictional memoir of Dr. Max Aue, a former Nazi officer who survived the war and has reinvented himself, many years later, as a middle-class entrepreneur and family man in northern 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 the horrors of the Second World War and the Nazi genocide of the Jews in graphic, disturbingly precise detail from the dark and disturbing point of view of the executioner rather than the victim. 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, at Auschwitz and Cracow; he visits occupied Paris and 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, Heydrich, Hoss, and Hitler himself. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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