By this beautiful sunny Sunday, why not spending the day in a park reading this novel by Jonathan Littel? He is the son of Robert Littel, an american writer born in 1967, living in Barcelona.
'The Kindly Ones' ('Les Bienveillantes'), written in French in 2006, around 1,000 pages is an amazing story of a SS officer who travels in Europe during the WWII. First, he wrote an essay about this Belgian SS and following this novel very well-documented. For the second edition, he corrected the few historical mistakes.
I just read on Wikipedia what Littel says about his Jewishness: Littell does not define himself as a Jew "at all", and is quoted as saying, "for me Judaism is more [of] a historical background."
This officer asked questions about the responsibility of European countries, USA and other countries which all knew what was happening in Eastern Europe. Why did it take so much time to react…?
Very well-written and i actually liked the description of the emptiness of Europe after all these massacres.
Voilà !
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