leave this article I thought when I last had the impression of having read The benevolent, but no way, after a few days since I closed the book, I am overwhelmed by the monumental novel by Jonathan Littell. And this book, rather than make your hair stand on end (which puts you, of course) ends up making the reader complicit in the barbaric and submit to the heavy feeling of collective guilt. Say
moral Littell strategy is to shorten the distance between the criminal the person who is not up to her in a narrow trench that can be crossed easily in both directions. For there have come just negative criticism, by those who believe that character is not credible Aue.
To me, however, it does seem credible. The hypothesis that says Littell is: the executioner can be a cult-like, sensitive even, and not necessarily be a butcher low light. I am reminded, for example, the torturer Death and the Maiden , violating women while listening to Schubert.
And Max Aue, the protagonist of the novel that will thrive in the SS, has its charm if one contemplates from the logic of the moment. He is educated, intelligent, efficient, educated, get excited about Flaubert and Stendhal, with Beethoven and Haydn and enjoy intelligent discussions and good food and drink. When it works, is responsible for the extermination of the Jews with the same professional zeal with which issues of logistics ships and uniforms.
Littell's vision is in the same direction as Irène Némirowsky in French Suite. Manichaeism is worthless. Tear-fiction (Spielberg, for example) tells us nothing about what happened. Points in Magris Danube the most moving book about the death camps is Commander in Austchwitz , written by Rudolf Höss just before he was hanged.
One of the most telling paradox that has benevolent The explanation is that the SS does not look kindly on those who executed Jews with contempt and sadistic, even enjoying it. Not so. The idea, says Aue, is that you do because you need to, but not by choice. In fact, he has no objection to be polite and even friendly with Jews or Russian soldiers about to be executed with having treatment. It is inflexible in carrying out their duty, but not a hate machine.
This book is a journey into the heart of the SS and centers of power in the Third Reich. But it is not moralizing biempensantes to simplify the human condition.
Because deep down, Aue us each and every one of us.
moral Littell strategy is to shorten the distance between the criminal the person who is not up to her in a narrow trench that can be crossed easily in both directions. For there have come just negative criticism, by those who believe that character is not credible Aue.
To me, however, it does seem credible. The hypothesis that says Littell is: the executioner can be a cult-like, sensitive even, and not necessarily be a butcher low light. I am reminded, for example, the torturer Death and the Maiden , violating women while listening to Schubert.
And Max Aue, the protagonist of the novel that will thrive in the SS, has its charm if one contemplates from the logic of the moment. He is educated, intelligent, efficient, educated, get excited about Flaubert and Stendhal, with Beethoven and Haydn and enjoy intelligent discussions and good food and drink. When it works, is responsible for the extermination of the Jews with the same professional zeal with which issues of logistics ships and uniforms.
Littell's vision is in the same direction as Irène Némirowsky in French Suite. Manichaeism is worthless. Tear-fiction (Spielberg, for example) tells us nothing about what happened. Points in Magris Danube the most moving book about the death camps is Commander in Austchwitz , written by Rudolf Höss just before he was hanged.
One of the most telling paradox that has benevolent The explanation is that the SS does not look kindly on those who executed Jews with contempt and sadistic, even enjoying it. Not so. The idea, says Aue, is that you do because you need to, but not by choice. In fact, he has no objection to be polite and even friendly with Jews or Russian soldiers about to be executed with having treatment. It is inflexible in carrying out their duty, but not a hate machine.
This book is a journey into the heart of the SS and centers of power in the Third Reich. But it is not moralizing biempensantes to simplify the human condition.
Because deep down, Aue us each and every one of us.
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