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"If you were born in a country or at a time not only when nobody comes to kill your wife and your children, but also nobody comes to ask you to kill the wives and children of others, then render thanks to God and go in peace. But always keep this thought in mind: you might be luckier than I, but you’re not a better person." - Jonathan Littell, The Kindly Ones Art by Artem Demura
The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
We Are Who We Are: "Right here, right now #5"
We Are Who We Are S01E05 (Right Here, Right Now #5)
Book title: The Kindly Ones (Les Bienveillantes in French; 2006) by Jonathan Littell
Mais le passé est une chose qui, lorsqu’il a planté ses dents dans votre chair, ne vous lâche plus.
Jonathan Littell, Les Bienveillantes.
It was one thing or the other: either you are dead, and then in any case there’s nothing else to understand, or else you are not yet dead, and in that case, even with the rifle at the back of your head or the rope around your neck, death remains incomprehensible, a pure abstraction, this absurd idea that I, the only living person in the world, could disappear.
Les Bienveillantes // The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
Céline was a wonderful poet, and I can say today that I value him greatly, because he’s dead. But had I lived in the 1930s, I would have tried to kill him.
Jonathan Littell
Parlo, discuto, prendo decisioni, come tutti; ma al bar, davanti a una buona grappa, immagino che entri un uomo armato di fucile e apra il fuoco; al cinema o a teatro mi figuro una bomba a mano senza sicura che rotola sotto le file di poltrone; in piazza, un giorno di festa, vedo la deflagrazione di un veicolo imbottito di esplosivo, l'allegria pomeridiana trasformata in massacro, il sangue che scorre fra le pietre del selciato, i pezzi di carne appiccicati ai muri o proiettati attraverso le finestre per atterrare nella minestra della domenica, sento le grida, i gemiti delle persone con gli arti strappati, come le zampe di un insetto da un bambino curioso, l'intontimento dei sopravvissuti, un silenzio strano, quasi incollato sui timpani, l'inizio della lunga paura. Calmo? Sì, sto calmo, qualunque cosa accada, non lascio trasparire nulla, resto tranquillo, impassibile, come le facciate mute delle città sinistrate, come i vecchietti sulle panchine dei parchi con i loro bastoni e le loro medaglie, come i volti a fior d'acqua degli annegati che nessuno ritrova mai.
Jonathan Littell