{"id":268836,"date":"2009-02-24T15:20:13","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T15:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2009\/02\/24\/more-on-the-kindly-ones\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:24:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:24:20","slug":"more-on-the-kindly-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2009\/02\/24\/more-on-the-kindly-ones\/","title":{"rendered":"More on The Kindly Ones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kakutani <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/24\/books\/24kaku.html\">takes her shot<\/a> at Littell&#8217;s monster:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>No doubt the author intends such remarks to convey the horrors of the Holocaust, but \u201cThe Kindly Ones\u201d instead reads like a pointless compilation of atrocities and anti-Semitic remarks, pointlessly combined with a gross collection of sexual fantasies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After this review, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.complete-review.com\/reviews\/popfr\/littellj.htm\">Michael&#8217;s<\/a>, <em>The Kindly Ones<\/em> is slowly working it&#8217;s way toward the bottom of our reading pile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kakutani takes her shot at Littell&#8217;s monster: No doubt the author intends such remarks to convey the horrors of the Holocaust, but \u201cThe Kindly Ones\u201d instead reads like a pointless compilation of atrocities and anti-Semitic remarks, pointlessly combined with a gross collection of sexual fantasies. After this review, and Michael&#8217;s, The Kindly Ones is slowly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[2136,18676,20316,1646],"class_list":["post-268836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-ejvl","tag-jonathan-littell","tag-michiko-kakutani","tag-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324426,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268836\/revisions\/324426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}