Tagged: Jonathan Littell

The Kindly Ones shun Athens

Jonathan Littell was recently awarded the Athens Price for Literature — but he won’t go to Athens to pick it up & explains this in the letter below. An odd explanation, to my mind,...

Jonathan Littell reads Maurice Blanchot

Next month Jonathan Littell’s controversial novel The Kindly Ones will be published in Charlotte Mandell’s translation by Harper-Collins. Meanwhile, for a special issue celebrating the 100th anniversary of La Nouvelle revue Française (NRF), Littell...