- Tytuł:
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Suita Jonathana Littella — o konstrukcji Łaskawych
Jonathan Littell’s suite – on the structure of The Kindly Ones - Autorzy:
- Izdebska, Agnieszka
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/648838.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2012
- Wydawca:
- Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
- Tematy:
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contemporary litterature
Jonathan Littell
musical aspect
literature interpretation
novel - Opis:
- The article addresses the issue of various interpretative contexts of Jonathan Littell’s best-selling novel The Kindly Ones (Les Bienveillantes). In particular, it deals with ethical and rhetorical consequences of the novel’s structure. The book’s form is based on a ba-roque suite – thus, the successive chapters are entitled: Toccata, Allemande I and Allemande II, Courante, Minuet (roundel), Aria and Gigue. The analysis of the meaning of the tech-nique employed by Littell yields a conclusion that there is no relation between the plot structure and the suite form. The ‘musical’ concept is used only to strengthen the fictionality of the novel. This way, Littell emphasizes that the foundation on which the monologue of his hero is built is at the same time documentary and purely ‘literary’. Thus, Littell’s novel only ‘pretends’ to be ‘a musical literary text’ – literature constructed by using musical forms. The last issue addressed in the article is the ethical ambivalence of Littell’s concept. Is it appropriate to ‘compose a suite about the Holocaust’? Does it locate The Kindly Ones near the sublime or kitsch? Or maybe both?
- Źródło:
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Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica; 2012, 16, 2; 34-42
1505-9057
2353-1908 - Pojawia się w:
- Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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