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"Oh my individuals brothers, without a doubt how it just happened." So starts the chilling fictional memoir of Dr. Maximilien Aue, a ex - Nazi officer who has reinvented himself, a long time after the war, as a middle-class family man and stock owner in France. Max is an intellectual steeped in idea, literature, and traditional music. He is also a cold-blooded assassin and the consummate bureaucrat. Through the eyes of the cultivated yet monstrous man, we experience in disturbingly exact aspect the horrors of the Second World Conflict and the Nazi genocide of the Jews. During the period from June 1941 through April 1945, Max is uploaded to Poland, the Ukraine, and the Caucasus; he is present at the Battle of Stalingrad with Auschwitz; and he lives through the chaos of the final days of the Nazi plan in Berlin. Although Max is a totally imagined personality, his world is peopled by real historical numbers, such as Eichmann, Himmler, Gödiamond ring, Speer, Heyrich, Höss, and Hitler himself. A supreme historical epic and a haunting work of fiction, Jonathan Littell's masterpiece is powerful, hallucinatory, and utterly original. Shared to impressive critical acclaim in France in 2006, it continued to succeed the Prix Goncourt, that country's most renowned literary prize, and sparked a broad range of replies and questions from readers: How exactly does fiction package with the type of human evil? How should a book encompass the Holocaust? At what point do background and fiction come together and where do they isolate? A provocative and controversial work of literature, The Kindly Ones is a morally challenging read; it holds up a reflection to mankind—and the audience cannot look away.
