<![CDATA[Les Bienveillantes]]>

false <![CDATA[Les Bienveillantes]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173043713m/241524.jpg 3755250 30 A literary prize-winning epic novel that has been a record-breaking bestseller in France, Germany, Italy, and Spain, and is keenly anticipated in the English-speaking world. The Kindly Ones won the Prix Goncourt, France’s most prestigious literary award, as well as the Académie Française’s Prix de Littérature. It has sold more than one million copies in Europe alone. The Kindly Ones is the 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. 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, Göring, Speer, Heydrich, Höss, and Hitler himself. Massive in scope, horrific in subject matter, and shocking in its protagonist, Littell’s masterpiece is intense, hallucinatory, and utterly original. Critics abroad have compared this provocative and controversial work of literature to Tolstoy’s War and Peace, a classic epic of war that, like The Kindly Ones, is a morally challenging read. 2916549 book 2006 The Kindly Ones total:341|5:107|4:100|3:64|2:32|1:38| 341 1229 1182 133 3 3 false true Wed Jul 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 12 05:13:18 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 24 04:55:42 -0700 2008 Llevo 400 páginas y anoto lo leído hasta ahora, porque cuando acabe habré olvidado buena parte de lo pensado hasta ahora. Si alguien no quiere que le destripe el libro, que no siga.

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