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Jonathan Littell
French-American writer. Her novel "Las bendivolas" ("Les bienveillantes") was awarded the 2006 Goncourt Prize and the Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française of the same year. Thanks to this novel he also obtained French nationality on March 8, 2007 for his "contribution
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The book is a fictitious autobiography that describes the life of Maximilian Aue, a former SS officer who decades later tells the story of a crucial part of his life: when he was an active member of the forces of the Third Reich. In the novel, Aue accepts his responsibility for his participation in the massacres of Jews, but most of the time he feels more like an observer than a participant
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