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"Oh my human brothers, let me tell you how it happened." So begins the chilling fictional memoir of Dr. Maximilien Aue, a former Nazi officer who has reinvented himself, many years after the war, as a middle-class family man and factory owner in France. Max is an intellectual steeped in... read more
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“I have remained someone who believes that the only things indispensable to human life are air, food, drink, and excretion, and the search for truth. The rest is optional.”
Max Aue
First Sentence
Oh my human brothers, let me tell you how it happenned. I am not your brother, you'll retort, and i don't want to know. And it certainly is true that this is a bleak story, but an edifying one too, a real morality play, I assure you.
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Authors & Contributors
- Charlotte Mandell (Author)
- Jonathan Littell
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