Books by Jonathan Littell

2. Las Ben é volas , by Jonathan Littell , the Spanish-language edition of this famous French novel just came out (I don’t read French).  Here is the French edition .  Here are some of the raves .  Here is a critical review .  I loved the first twenty pages and was bored by the next thirty.  We’ll see how far I get in this Spanish-language edition of almost 1000 pages.  My current best guess is that a WWII-themed novel of this kind simply can’t be that original.  The French love it, perhaps, bec...