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The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.71Dr Max Aue is a family man and owner of a lace factory in post-war France. He is an intellectual steeped in philosophy, literature, and classical music. He is also a former SS intelligence officer... -
The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell 9780061353468
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061353468Author Jonathan LittellFormat PaperbackPage Count 992Imprint HarperCollins... -
An Inconvenient Place Jonathan Littel 9781804271124
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23What is a place? A place where things happened, horrible things, the traces of which have been erased? Ukraine, for a long time, has been filled with these ‘inconvenient places’ which embarrass... -
Writing the Holocaust Today: Critical Perspectives on Jonathan Littell's <i>The Kindly Ones</i> by Aurelie Barjonet 9789042035867
Booksplease Price: £91.75Originally written in French, The Kindly Ones (2006) is the first major work of the Jewish-American author Jonathan Littell. Its extraordinary critical and commercial success, spawning a series of... -
Ella Morris: A Novel by John David Morley 9780297871729
Booksplease Price: £42.17'This is a bold and fascinating mystery novel of ideas. John David Morley enfolds science and human loss with great fictional cunning' Ian McEwan on The Book of OppositesSpanning the decades from... -
The Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Nonfiction by Erin McGlothlin 9780814348345
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.32The Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Nonfiction examines texts that portray the inner experience of Holocaust perpetrators and thus transform them from archetypes of evil into complex... -
Created in the Image?: Holocaust Perpetrators in Israeli Fiction by Or Rogovin 9780228022107
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £49.27The turn of the twenty-first century saw the rise of a brand of fiction that centres the experience and perspective of the perpetrator, thereby humanizing this character and granting it the... -
How to Write About the Holocaust: The Postmodern Theory of History in Praxis by Theodor Pelekanidis 9781032123998
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69How to Write About the Holocaust is a contribution to ongoing debates in historiography and Holocaust studies. More specifically, it combines the theoretical framework that has developed in... -
Framing Narratives of the Second World War and Occupation in France, 1939-2009: New Readings Margaret Atack 9780719087554
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £65.11The Second World War and the German Occupation remain a major focal point in French culture and society, with new and sometimes controversial titles published every year - Irene Nemirovsky's Suite... -
Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel: Rene Girard and Literary Criticism by Pierpaolo Antonello 9781611861655
Booksplease Price: £46.05Fifty years after its publication in English, Rene Girard's Deceit, Desire, and the Novel (1965) has never ceased to fascinate, challenge, inspire, and sometimes irritate, literary scholars. It has... -
Philosophy and Literature in Times of Crisis: Challenging our Infatuation with Numbers by Dr Michael Mack 9781623566494
Booksplease Price: £33.92Highlighting literature and philosophy's potential impact on economics, health care, bioethics, public policy and theology, this book analyses the heuristic value of fiction. It alerts us to how we... -
Narrative Ethics by Jakob Lothe 9789042037281
Booksplease Price: £115.70While Plato recommended expelling poets from the ideal society, W. H. Auden famously declared that poetry makes nothing happen. The 19 contributions to the present book avoid such polarized views... -
Framing Narratives of the Second World War and Occupation in France, 1939-2009: New Readings by Margaret Atack
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.54The Second World War and the German Occupation remain a major focal point in French culture and society, with new and sometimes controversial titles published every year - Irene Nemirovsky's Suite... -
(A)pollonia: Twenty-First-Century Polish Drama and Texts for the Stage Joanna Klass 9781803095349
Booksplease Price: £35.42Exploring the ethics of historical narratives and national identities, this anthology of Polish plays delves into the trauma of war, anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, and Poland's post-communist reality... -
The Broken Voice: Reading Post-Holocaust Literature by Robert Eaglestone 9780198778363
Booksplease Price: £78.80'Which writer today is not a writer of the Holocaust?' asked the late Imre Kertesz, Hungarian survivor and novelist, in his Nobel acceptance speech: 'one does not have to choose the Holocaust as... -
Kingdom of Twilight Steven Uhly 9780857056467
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH - THE TIMESOne night in autumn 1944, a gunshot echoes through the alleyways of a small town in occupied Poland. An S.S. officer is shot dead by a young Polish... -
Memory and Complicity: Migrations of Holocaust Remembrance by Debarati Sanyal 9780823265473
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £70.80Since World War II, French and Francophone literature and film have repeatedly sought not to singularize the Holocaust as the paradigm of historical trauma but rather to connect its memory with other... -
In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom Marcel Proust 9780192845672
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.01'I was at one of those periods in youth--vacant, without any particular love object--when, like a lover seeing his beloved in all things, we desire, we seek, we see Beauty everywhere.' In the... -
The Vichy Past in France Today: Corruptions of Memory by Richard J. Golsan 9781498550345
Booksplease Price: £38.41The Vichy Past in France Today: Corruptions of Memory is an interdisciplinary study examining the continuing impact of the memory of Vichy and World War II in French politics, literature,...