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The Accusing Power of a Paradoxical Unity of Voice

Author(s): Iskra Tsoneva
Subject(s): History, Philosophy, Language and Literature Studies, Jewish studies, Studies of Literature, Aesthetics, Special Historiographies:, Fascism, Nazism and WW II, History of Antisemitism
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН
Keywords: anti-Semitism; criminality; polyglossia; heteroglossia

Summary/Abstract: Jonathan Littell’s novel The Kindly Ones, written in French, is a story about World War II and the Eastern Front, presented through the fictional memoirs of a sophisticated SS officer. The main aim of the article is to show how, by a radical rejection of the method of polyglossia, characteristic of narrative in the traditional novel, Littell merges his voice with the voice of his criminal hero, who accuses everyone – participants and witnesses alike, all of us.

  • Issue Year: XXVIII/2019
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 35-48
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English, Bulgarian