Fictional SS memoirs that make me wanna puke

[telis]

An American author wrote a fictional book about an ex SS guy who tells his story.

The ex Nazi is a crypto homo******, has an incest relationship with his sister and he killed his mother :cantbeli:

But the most annoying thing he does is that how he puts Nazis to read

ancient Greek texts after executions. :-(





Ben Hutchinson
Sunday November 12, 2006
The Observer (http://www.observer.co.uk/)


This autumn, European literature seems to be under the sign of the SS. After the media storm in Germany caused by Gunter Grass's autobiography, in which the Nobel Prize winner caused consternation by admitting that he had volunteered for the Schutzstaffel, the big event in France has emerged with uncanny timing. In the two months since its publication, Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes, which purports to relate the memoirs of Maximilian Aue, a fictional SS officer, has become a literary phenomenon.

Inevitably, Littell occasionally flirts with cliche (in particular that of the cultured Nazi who enjoys quoting Sophocles after a hard day's butchering), but Aue emerges as a convincingly rounded figure



Yet reading the novel is, in any case, a deliberately uncomfortable experience. One feels the 'desire to look and at the same time disgust at the thought', as Aue quotes from Plato after observing mass executions. English readers can look forward to the translation, which Littell is preparing for publication in spring 2008, with similarly ambivalent feelings.




http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1945584,00.html

[AK74]

this sould be under off topic and humor.

and the part of you puking makes me laugh ! rofl

[Friendly Fire]

An American author wrote a fictional book about an ex SS guy who tells his story.

The ex Nazi is a crypto homo******, has an incest relationship with his sister and he killed his mother :cantbeli:

But the most annoying thing he does is that how he puts Nazis to read

ancient Greek texts after executions. :-(





Ben Hutchinson
Sunday November 12, 2006
The Observer (http://www.observer.co.uk/)


This autumn, European literature seems to be under the sign of the SS. After the media storm in Germany caused by Gunter Grass's autobiography, in which the Nobel Prize winner caused consternation by admitting that he had volunteered for the Schutzstaffel, the big event in France has emerged with uncanny timing. In the two months since its publication, Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes, which purports to relate the memoirs of Maximilian Aue, a fictional SS officer, has become a literary phenomenon.

Inevitably, Littell occasionally flirts with cliche (in particular that of the cultured Nazi who enjoys quoting Sophocles after a hard day's butchering), but Aue emerges as a convincingly rounded figure



Yet reading the novel is, in any case, a deliberately uncomfortable experience. One feels the 'desire to look and at the same time disgust at the thought', as Aue quotes from Plato after observing mass executions. English readers can look forward to the translation, which Littell is preparing for publication in spring 2008, with similarly ambivalent feelings.




http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1945584,00.html


I don't understand...did you believed that all nazis were illiterate?

[ellion 86R*]

You should make your living out somehow... When you will be starving you will probably write even worse **** :)

etsi vivlia na diavazoume gamoto :)

[Thor]

Gays like Jonathan Littell have all kinds of fantasies about the SS. Guess they're attracted to uniforms.

[AK74]

Gays like Jonathan Littell have all kinds of fantasies about the SS. Guess they're attracted to uniforms.

so are the japs.have you seen a Lolita dressed in SS uniforms or a french maid? i have.

[Dr. Mockelfish]

Yeah......whats with japs and making **** while dressed like Nazis? Its a little creepy.......they even make those anime cartoons things about Nazi's......like that one Hellsing.....

[WarriorMonk]

no its dem Jinroh soldiers with the Fritz helmets and MP44s and MG42s...

[Sgt Kanderer]

An American author wrote a fictional book about an ex SS guy who tells his story.

The ex Nazi is a crypto homo******, has an incest relationship with his sister and he killed his mother :cantbeli:

But the most annoying thing he does is that how he puts Nazis to read

ancient Greek texts after executions. :-(





Ben Hutchinson
Sunday November 12, 2006
The Observer (http://www.observer.co.uk/)


This autumn, European literature seems to be under the sign of the SS. After the media storm in Germany caused by Gunter Grass's autobiography, in which the Nobel Prize winner caused consternation by admitting that he had volunteered for the Schutzstaffel, the big event in France has emerged with uncanny timing. In the two months since its publication, Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes, which purports to relate the memoirs of Maximilian Aue, a fictional SS officer, has become a literary phenomenon.

Inevitably, Littell occasionally flirts with cliche (in particular that of the cultured Nazi who enjoys quoting Sophocles after a hard day's butchering), but Aue emerges as a convincingly rounded figure



Yet reading the novel is, in any case, a deliberately uncomfortable experience. One feels the 'desire to look and at the same time disgust at the thought', as Aue quotes from Plato after observing mass executions. English readers can look forward to the translation, which Littell is preparing for publication in spring 2008, with similarly ambivalent feelings.




http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1945584,00.html

Did you read it or have you only heard about it ?!!!

If you don't have, just shut up !!!

[California Joe]

I can't figure out what exactly your problem is, that it's fiction or that it's uncharitable towards the SS, but frankly the amount of racism in this thread is leading me to close it so I don't have to ban half of you for being knobs.