Originally written in French, "The Kindly Ones "(2006) is the first major work of the Jewish-American author Jonathan Littell. Its extraordinary critical and commercial success, spawning a series of heated debates, has made this publication one of the most significant literary phenomena of recent years. Taking the Holocaust as its central topic, "The Kindly Ones" is a disturbing novel: disturbing in its use of explicit sexual descriptions, in its construction of a perverted psychic world, in its combination of accurate historical descriptions and myths, and in its repeated suggestion that...
Originally written in French, "The Kindly Ones "(2006) is the first major work of the Jewish-American author Jonathan Littell. Its extraordinary criti...
