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Original Title:	Les Bienveillantes
ISBN:	0061353450 (ISBN13: 9780061353451)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Max Aue, Adolf Eichmann, Thomas Hauser, Heinrich Himmler, Albert Speer, Una Aue
Setting:	Ukraine Stalingrad, USSR Berlin(Germany) …more Kiev(Ukraine) Lutsk(Ukraine) Zhytomyr(Ukraine) Kharkiv(Ukraine) Yalta(Ukraine) Pyatigorsk(Russian Federation) Voroshilovsk(Russian Federation) Usedom(Germany) Paris(France) Lublin(Poland) Oświęcim (Auschwitz)(Poland) Auschwitz(Poland) Budapest(Hungary) …less
Literary Awards:	Prix Goncourt (2006), Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominee for Longlist (2010), Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie française (2006), Bad Sex in Fiction Award (2009), The Athens Prize for Literature - Περιοδικό (δέ)κατα (2009) French-American Foundation Translation Prize Nominee for Fiction (2009), Национална награда „Христо Г. Данов“ for Преводна художествена литература (2010)

The Kindly Ones

Jonathan Littell

Hardcover | Pages: 984 pages

Rating: 4.07 | 7765 Users | 1041 Reviews

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Named one of the "100 Best Books of the Decade" by The Times of London

"Oh my human brothers, let me tell you how it happened."

A former Nazi officer, Dr. Maximilien Aue has reinvented himself, many years after the war, as a middle-class family man and factory owner in France. 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. Eichmann, Himmler, Göring, Speer, Heydrich, Höss—even Hitler himself—play a role in Max's story. An intense and hallucinatory historical epic, The Kindly Ones is also a morally challenging read. It holds a mirror up to humanity—and the reader cannot look away.

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Title	:	The Kindly Ones
Author	:	Jonathan Littell
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 984 pages
Published	:	March 3rd 2009 by Harper (first published August 21st 2006)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. War. World War II. Cultural. France

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Ratings: 4.07 From 7765 Users | 1041 Reviews

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The English translation of les Bienveillantes is a travesti. All the sardonic irony and the disgust of the author for his protagonist is lost; imagine taking seriously the Blagojevich defence (I am being punished for doing the right thing for the people who voted for me)!It starts with the double-entendres (the word 'bienveillant' means 'kind' of course, but it can also denote watchfulness, or paternalism or 'meaning well', depending on the context) when ambiguity is the book's medium; then it

This memoir of a fictional, high-ranking bureaucrat in the Nazi SS was recommended to me years ago by, of all people, a young Israeli Jew who insisted it was the finest thing she had ever read about The Third Reich and the Holocaust.I'm both pleased and horrified to say that her opinion, in my view, is correct.This is an engulfing, occasionally uneven, brutal masterpiece of a first novel. Our narrator, Max Aue, is unapologetic, matricidal, deeply closeted, murderous, and wants more than anything

Please, mein Herr, shoot the children cleanly. Jonathan Littell, The Kindly OnesSuch a fiercely compelling novel, one of the most evil stories ever told. I had to listen to the audio book while taking my walks and let all the evil from the novel run down my legs and out the bottom of my feet; so much evil, thus my initial reluctance to write a review and highly recommend. However, the writing is excellent and the insights on human nature, history and culture numerous.The first-person narrator

Madness. Despicably disgustingly amazingly crafted madness. The ability of authors to write out these scenarios, diving into and drowning in the minds of the most horrific human beings imaginable, without completely losing their minds astounds me sometimes. Maximilian Aue is just a byproduct of this whole history, if you can believe it. He starts out with horrific tendencies, to be sure (view spoiler)[: incest from an extremely young age, coprophilia, murderous inclinations (hide spoiler)]. And

Most of what has been said in criticism of this book has deeply misrepresented it: yes, there is horrible brutality well beyond simple war narration (which you will find in almost every post-WWI novel or non-fiction book). This brutality will disturb every reader (or should). Yes, some of the main character's sexual obsessions will make most readers squirm a bit even if they aren't exactly squeamish. But to read these elements as the basic character and most memorable aspects of the book is

"I live, I do what can be done, it's the same for everyone, I am a man like other men, I am a man like you. I tell you I am just like you!"-- Jonathan Littell, The Kindly Ones This is a hard book to review. It is like walking out of a David Lynch movie and feeling brain raped by the artist. How exactly to you attempt to explore the depths of Nazi Germany without feeling dark, abused, and sick afterwards? From conversations I've had with those who've hated this novel (and British critics I've

So what's the most atrocious thing you've seen?... Man, of course!The Kindly Ones polarized both readers and critics all over the world. They argued on its literary values and scandalous content, pornocaust or holokitsch were amongst epithets, felt poised between admiration for the gigantic work Littell done and themes he researched and final product and message it delivered. The genre itself confounded almost everyone, was it a history novel or quasi document, a literary fiction or