Newsday review of AtD

[Bryan Snyder]

Hello -

This book sounds very interesting... any reason the paperback on Amazon
lists for $60??

Is there a place i can get it for a normal price?

Thanks!


On 11/18/06, pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> For me, it's the disarmingly friendly way Aue comes on
> from the start, although that set bells ringing, too,
> the conviction he expresses that he and I, the reader,
> are on par morally. There's a little delay before the
> trick is apparent (I haven't actually committed any
> war atrocities, for starters, although it is true that
> I fantasized about fragging a certain platoon leader
> once in the sometimes tense environment of S. Korea
> just outside the DMZ, in '73), but it was enough of a
> gap for me to start questioning my own knee-jerk
> "You're not one of us, buddy, you're a monster"; the
> voice pulled me right in.
>
> I suspect Litell composed the novel in his head in
> English and more or less simultaneously translated it
> into French, which might be something like the way a
> German speaker like the narrator of his novel writes
> French, translating from German.  (I haven't read any
> of the articles in French publications about the
> novel, thus shielding myself from spoilers and from
> planting any prejudicial seeds in my reception of it,
> so there may be info out there that undercuts this
> notion - if Littell did a lot of research in French
> books, that could  have an impact on the novel's
> diction, for example.)
>
> That's how I speak and read French, while my son, who
> attended K-12 schools where the primary language of
> instruction was French, speaks and writes the
> language, with very close to native fluency although
> not quite as fluent as his English.
>
> -Doug
>
>
> --- Michel Ryckx <mryc2903 at yahoo.fr> wrote:
>
> > Having read about 700 pages in Les Bienveillantes
> > [love that very
> > classic french], I am constantly wondering why, in
> > this morally
> > disturbing novel, I like Aue, the SS main character,
> > and not Blicero.
> >
> > Michel.
> >
>
>
>
>
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