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Kindly Ones
AvJonathan Littell
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
189 kr
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Dr Max Aue, a former SS intelligence officer, looks back on the Eastern Front, Stalingrad, and the death camps as Nazi Germany falls. Set during the Second World War on the Eastern Front and in Berlin, The Kindly Ones is narrated by Dr Max Aue, who is both a cultivated intellectual and a participant in Nazi atrocities. From Stalingrad to the death camps and the nightmarish fall of Berlin, The Kindly Ones places Max Aue among figures including Eichmann, Himmler, Göring, Speer and Hitler. As the Third Reich falls, Max reflects on the career that took him through mass murder and bureaucratic power, insisting on his own version of events.
The Kindly Ones
A Novel
AvJonathan Littell
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
277 kr
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Kindly Ones
AvJonathan Littell
Ljudbok
Engelska, 2009
786 kr
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â€œSimply astounding. . . . The Kindly Ones is unmistakably the work of a profoundly gifted writer.â€ â€” Time
A literary prize-winner that has been an explosive bestseller all over the world, Jonathan Littellâ€™s The Kindly Ones has been called â€œa brilliant Holocaust novel. . . a world-class masterpiece of astonishing brutality, originality, and force,â€ (Michael Korda, The Daily Beast). Destined to join the pantheon of classic epics of war such as Tolstoyâ€™s War and Peace and Vasily Grossmanâ€™s Life and Fate, The Kindly Ones offers a profound and gripping experience of the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust.
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, Gring, Speer, Heydrich, Hssâ€”even Hitler himselfâ€”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 humanityâ€”and the reader cannot look away.
Kindly Ones
A Novel
AvJonathan Littell
E-bok
Engelska, 2009
101 kr
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A Nazi recounts his unsettling journey through WWII in this prize-winning novel: “a world-class masterpiece of astonishing brutality, originality, and force” (Michael Korda, The Daily Beast).A literary sensation when it was first published in France, Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones was awarded both the Gran Prix du roman de l’Academie and the Prix Goncourt. Second World War historian Antony Beevor called it “a great work of literary fiction, to which readers and scholars will turn for decades to come” Now it is available in a sparkling English language edition by the renowned translator Charlotte Mandell (The Times, UK)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.“Simply astounding. . . . The Kindly Ones is unmistakably the work of a profoundly gifted writer.” —Time
Kindly Ones
A chilling Second World War novel following an SS officer from the Eastern Front to the ruins of Berlin
AvJonathan Littell
E-bok
Engelska, 2009
33 kr
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Dr Max Aue, a former SS intelligence officer, looks back on the Eastern Front, Stalingrad, and the death camps as Nazi Germany falls. Set during the Second World War on the Eastern Front and in Berlin, The Kindly Ones is narrated by Dr Max Aue, who is both a cultivated intellectual and a participant in Nazi atrocities. From Stalingrad to the death camps and the nightmarish fall of Berlin, The Kindly Ones places Max Aue among figures including Eichmann, Himmler, Göring, Speer and Hitler. As the Third Reich falls, Max reflects on the career that took him through mass murder and bureaucratic power, insisting on his own version of events.
Damp and the Dry
A Brief Incursion into Fascist Territory
AvJonathan Littell
Häftad, Engelska, 2027
198 kr
Kommande
How do fascists think? An acclaimed novelists looks at the life and writing of a prominent Nazi collaborator to investigate the links between psychology, language, and action on the far right.Léon Degrelle was Belgium’s highest-ranking Nazi collaborator and a fanatical Waffen-SS officer who fought on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. Admired by Hitler and Mussolini and later sheltered by Franco in Spain, Degrelle embodied the figure of the fascist true believer long after the defeat of the Third Reich.In a richly illustrated text, Jonathan Littell here subjects Degrelle’s main autobiographical writings, his memoir The Russian Campaign, to a forensic reading, bringing it into confrontation with the work of a renowned writer on psychology and fascism, Klaus Theweleit, who provides an afterword to the book. Littell dissects Degrelle’s prose to expose what he terms an “anatomy of fascist discourse”: a recurring set of metaphors, obsessions, and psychic structures through which fascist ideology understands the body, violence, purity, and the enemy.The Damp and the Dry moves beyond biography to reveal how fascism thinks and speaks. It is a disturbing and incisive study of authoritarian mentality—one that illuminates not only the history of twentieth-century fascism, but its enduring rhetorical and psychological appeal.
Syrian Notebooks
Inside the Homs Uprising
AvJonathan Littell
E-bok
Engelska, 2015
147 kr
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"We fight for our religion, for our women, for our land, and lastly to save our skin. As for them, they''re only fighting to save their skin."In 2012, Jonathan Littell traveled to the heart of the Syrian uprising, smuggled in by the Free Syrian Army to the historic city of Homs. For three weeks, he watched as neighborhoods were bombed and innocent civilians murdered. His notes on what he saw on the ground speak directly of horrors that continue today in the ongoing civil war.Amid the chaos, Littell bears witness to the lives and the hopes of freedom fighters, of families caught within the conflict, as well as of the doctors who attempt to save both innocents and combatants who come under fire. As government forces encircle the city, Littell charts the first stirrings of the fundamentalist movement that would soon hijack the revolution. Littell''s notebooks were originally the raw material for the articles he wrote upon his return for the French daily Le Monde. Published nearly immediately afterward in France, Syrian Notebooks has come to form an incomparable close-up account of a war that still grips the Middle East-a classic of war reportage.
Inconvenient Place
AvJonathan Littell
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
163 kr
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What is a place? A place where things happened, horrible things, the traces of which have been erased? Ukraine, for a long time, has been filled with these ‘inconvenient places’ which embarrass everyone, no matter which side of post-Soviet memorial politics they stand on: crimes of Stalinism, crimes of Nazism, crimes of nationalists, crimes of Russians; the killings follow one after another on this battered territory which aspires only to a form of peace and normality.With the photographer Antoine d’Agata, before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Jonathan Littell began to survey Babyn Yar, the site of the 1941 massacre of the Jews of Kyiv, and the traces left on the landscape. The war came to interrupt their work. It resumed quite quickly in another form, in another place, the small suburban town of Bucha, which became infamous after the discovery of the atrocities perpetrated there by the Russian occupying forces. Again, a place where things happened; again, a place whose traces we erase as quickly as possible. How then to write, how to photograph, when there is literally nothing to see – or almost nothing?
Fata Morgana Books
AvCharlotte Mandell,Jonathan Littell
E-bok
Engelska, 2013
172 kr
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The Prix Goncourt–winning author of the scandalous The Kindly Ones returns with four new novellas that offer startlingly fresh depictions of age-old obsessions: sex and love, desiring and gazing, and the memories that take a lifetime to process. In The Fata Morgana Books, Littell crafts unique narrative voices by letting sensual feelings take the fore, whether the slippery promise of silk underwear, the dizzy intensity of abstract art, the languid torpor of a French beach, the shock of a bull’s goring horn, or the warmth of a fondled breast. The connections between events are left obscure, yet these novellas are as striking as a gust of frigid air, presenting a skewed reality in which the reader is drawn forward to figure out who, or what, is telling the story, and why. Narrated by what may be hermaphrodites or ghosts, wanders or wonders, Littell’s masterful, effortless sentences carry these stories that illuminate the shadowy depths of solitude, reflection, longing, and lust."In Quarters" is a Proustian ghost story, or maybe a memory, or a dream. Narrated by a man who may or may not exist, it follows him through a sprawling mansion where he cares for a sick child, though he has forgotten whether or not the boy is his, while stealing food from other''s plates and having sex with a beautiful young woman. When he travels to a provincial city, the young woman reappears—or does she? Repeated brushes with shadowy men with umbrellas offer a hint of menace that forms the backbone of this strange tale."Story About Nothing" follows a man who cannot remember his birthday "or even the sign under which I was born" as he experiences transgenderism, a pornographic tape given to him by a mysterious stranger, and a Hemingway-esque series of bullfights under the hot Spanish sun. As Littell takes his narrator through a series of affairs, each more ephemeral then the last, it becomes clear that this is a story about the transience of sex, the way that desire evaporates in satiation and then reappears when two strangers share a long look over a strong drink. Anchored by striking images—a lime sorbet, children diving off of high rocks—Littell''s tale becomes a trip through desire that is not soon forgotten.Commanding in spite of their vagueness, beguilingly easy to read but full of depth and mystery, these novellas explore the in-between spaces: between thoughts, between bodies, between hungers and their satisfactions, between eyes and the things they look at.
Die Wohlgesinnten
AvJonathan Littell
E-bok
Tyska, 2010
159 kr
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Im Februar 2008 erschien im Berlin Verlag der Roman, den Jorge Semprun als »das Ereignis unserer Jahrhunderthälfte « bezeichnet: Die Wohlgesinnten von Jonathan Littell. Über Monate hielt er die deutsche Literaturkritik in Atem. Mit den fiktiven Lebenserinnerungen des SS-Obersturmführers Maximilian Aue, Jahrgang 1913, Sohn eines deutschen Vaters und einer französischen Mutter, zeichnet Jonathan Littell ein erschreckend detailgenaues Bild des Zweiten Weltkriegs und der Verfolgung und Vernichtung der Juden durch die Nationalsozialisten aus Sicht eines Täters. »Das ist ein Roman, und das ist ein Autor, vor denen man sich verneigen muss«, schrieb Andreas Isenschmid in der NZZ am Sonntag. Die Wohlgesinnten erscheint im Oktober 2009 im Berliner Taschenbuch Verlag.
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Die Wohlgesinnten
AvJonathan Littell
Häftad, Tyska, 2009
308 kr
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Binevoitoarele
AvJonathan Littell
E-bok
Rumänska, 2021
77 kr
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Dr. Max Aue este un familist convins și proprietarul unei fabrici de dantelă din Franța de după război. Este un intelectual pasionat de filosofie, literatură și muzică clasică. Dar este, de asemenea, fost ofițer de informații SS și asasin cu sânge-rece. A fost observator și apoi participant la atrocitățile naziste de pe frontul de Est, a fost prezent la asediul Stalingradului, în lagărele morții și, în cele din urmă, a fost martor la pierderea puterii de către naziști și la căderea Berlinului. Lumea lui a fost populată de Eichmann, Himmler, Göring, Speer și, desigur, de Hitler. Acum, Max își reevaluează propria viață cu o precizie rece; vorbește acum pentru a pune lucrurile la punct.
În Binevoitoarele, roman distins cu Premiul Goncourt și cu Marele Premiu al Academiei Franceze, Jonathan Littell ne face să retrăim ororile celui de-al Doilea Război Mondial de partea călăilor, prezentându-ne un personaj cum rareori ne-a fost dat să vedem: epopeea unei ființe străbătând istoria și propriul destin.

Faptul că această poveste terifiantă, relatată de un personaj profund antipatic este atât de captivantă e o realizare excepțională… o mare operă de ficțiune literară, la care cititorii și specialiștii se vor întoarce încă mulți ani. Anthony Beevor, The Times De neuitat… magnific. London Review of Books

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Syrian Notebooks
Inside the Homs Uprising
AvJonathan Littell
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
176 kr
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"We fight for our religion, for our women, for our land, and lastly to save our skin. As for them, they're only fighting to save their skin."In 2012, Jonathan Littell traveled to the heart of the Syrian uprising, smuggled in by the Free Syrian Army to the historic city of Homs. For three weeks, he watched as neighborhoods were bombed and innocent civilians murdered. His notes on what he saw on the ground speak directly of horrors that continue today in the ongoing civil war.Amid the chaos, Littell bears witness to the lives and the hopes of freedom fighters, of families caught within the conflict, as well as of the doctors who attempt to save both innocents and combatants who come under fire. As government forces encircle the city, Littell charts the first stirrings of the fundamentalist movement that would soon hijack the revolution.Littell's notebooks were originally the raw material for the articles he wrote upon his return for the French daily Le Monde. Published nearly immediately afterward in France, Syrian Notebooks has come to form an incomparable close-up account of a war that still grips the Middle East-a classic of war reportage.