The Kindly Ones. Jonathan Littell and the Reasons In and For Literature

The Kindly Ones. Jonathan Littell and the Reasons In and For Literature The narrative deployed by Max Aue in Littell's novel leads to the question whether he has existed at all or whether he is not imagining his past as a Nazi, and all the rest of it, as the form his quest for meaning in life, in particular after the Holocaust, takes. Aue's reference to Blanchot's article on Melville reveals that indeed the book is written as testimony to the impossibility of making objective sense or reason of History's unreason.