American Writer Is Awarded Goncourt

Mister Cow Cow writes “Prix Goncourt — Jonathan Littell — Report — New York Times: Jonathan Littell, an American author who writes in French, has won France’s most prestigious literary prize for his novel about decadence and one man’s role in the Nazi horror.”

November 8, 2006 by Uncategorized 1

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  1. GregS* says:
    November 8, 2006 at 8:17 pm

    sacre bleu!

    Written in the first person, it is the memoir of Maximilien Aue, a well-educated former SS officer who has managed to escape punishment after the war and reinvent himself as a lace manufacturer in northern France. It is not a confession, though, because Aue sees no reason to apologize. Rather, it is a matter-of-fact description of his decadence – homosexual sadomasochism and incest with his sister – and of his murderous role in the Nazi nightmare.

    A lot of talk recently about the hypocrisy. There is something hypocritical about the need to mentally whip yourself over the failures of the past while standing idly by and watch the same kind of failures in the present.

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