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03/01/2009: "Yet another Holoco$t novel is published"
Publishing a book in translation is always difficult in this country. But Jonathan Littell's "The Kindly Ones," a brutally graphic novel about the Holocaust narrated by Max Aue, a former Nazi officer, presents a particularly daunting challenge.
Whom did you interview?
In the Ukraine I found two survivors of Babi Yar, one of whom was 13 at the time, so he had a very good memory. He was literally in the massacre. He survived by hiding in a culvert. He hid, and everyone marched over his head, including his parents.
How did you prepare to get inside Max's head?
I drew on my own way of seeing things. I based him mostly on myself, not anybody else.
[ How many trees were murdered to publish that rubbish? ]
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