Myth, Morals, and Metafiction in Jonathan Littell's "Les Bienveillantes"
Myth, Morals, and Metafiction in Jonathan Littell's "Les Bienveillantes"
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Cambridge: Modern Language Association of America
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Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes, the fictional autobiography of an incestuous SS officer, is one of the most controversial novels published in the last decade: it received two prestigious French literary awards but was denounced as kitschy, pornographic, and revisionist. This essay explores the intertext of the Oresteia, which makes the book...
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Myth, Morals, and Metafiction in Jonathan Littell's "Les Bienveillantes"
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_923757880
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_923757880
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0030-8129
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1938-1530
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10.1632/pmla.2012.127.1.77
