by Jonathan Littell · RBA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498673791
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«Las benévolas» is the historical novel by Jonathan Littell, published by RBA in paperback, with 992 pages, in Spanish.
Maximilien Aue, a former SS officer, recalls his participation in the Holocaust and other war crimes during World War II. He describes his work on the Eastern Front with a dispassionate gaze and reconstructs the mentality of the perpetrators of the extermination, without seeing himself as a fanatic.
Translation by María Teresa Gallego Urrutia; original title, Les Bienveillantes. FICTION collection, no. 231. Work recognized with the Prix Goncourt and the Grand Prix du Roman of the Académie française.
Work aimed at the general public, especially those seeking historical fiction about World War II and the Holocaust.
Jonathan Littell is an American-born writer living in Barcelona. His first novel written in French, The Kindly Ones, won two major French awards, including the Prix Goncourt and the Prix de l'Académie française.
