Parole et silence pour l’expression de l’éthique dans La mort est mon métier de Robert Merle
Thanks to a daring and original exercise of focusing the narrative in first person, Robert Merle makes a historical Nazi the hero and narrator of his novel La mort est mon métier. Adding to this fact a careful choice of what is said and what is omitted, the author shows that the “final solution to t...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Asociación de Francesistas de la Universidad Española (AFUE)
2015-11-01
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| Series: | Çédille: Revista de Estudios Franceses |
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| Online Access: | https://cedille.webs.ull.es/M5/03badiola.pdf |
| Summary: | Thanks to a daring and original exercise of focusing the narrative in first person, Robert Merle makes a historical Nazi the hero and narrator of his novel La mort est mon métier. Adding to this fact a careful choice of what is said and what is omitted, the author shows that the “final solution to the Jewish problem” by Hitler was not a massacre organized by some bloodthirsty or revengeful individuals, but a «hard task» accomplished by a group of de¬humanized beings for whom the honor –and morals– consisted of total dedication to blind obe¬dience to their superiors. |
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| ISSN: | 1699-4949 1699-4949 |