Thread: Les Bienveillantes

This book written in French by an American on the eastern front of the WWII is just SHOCKING, BREATHTAKING and PAINFULLY BEAUTIFUL.

It got 2 the most pretigious FRENCH prizes of litterature. There are russian words in it, and ukrainian. It is the story of a SS officer. Ah yea it is 900 pages

So????

Originally Posted by charlestonian

So????

Лучше не "So?", а "Спасибо" за информацию о хорошей книге. Мне, правда, придётся подождать, пока появится её русский или английский перевод.

Speaking of good books, I would really like to read a book by Viktor Frankl (not sure that I'm spelling his name correctly). He was a psychiatrist supporting Freid's theory at the beginning of his psyciatric carreer but later on he changed his outlook. The thing is he was Jewish and was a prisoner of a Nazi death camp. While in the camp, he went through a very difficult time and saw a lot of violent killings. Once when he was still in the death camp, he realised that despite all the torment he had to suffer, he still had freedom inside himself. Little by little, that new feeling overwhelmed him, resulting in a dramatic change of his life philosophy. His new outlook on life was as follows: "I have internal freedom that you no one can change but me. I have the freedom of choice". Luckily, he was not killed in the camp and once freed, he wrote a book called "Man's Search for Meaning", in which he gave an explanation of that new outlook.

The most amazing thing is I haven't read this book yet but I really want to. The desire to read the book came while I was reading Stephen Covey's book called "The 7 habits of highly effective people". I don't know why but I think it's [Man's Search for Meaning] a very good read. Has anybody read this book?

Originally Posted by Lampada

Originally Posted by charlestonian

So????

Лучше не "So?", а "Спасибо" за информацию о хорошей книге. Мне, правда, придётся подождать, пока появится её русский или английский перевод.

That's charlstonian's habit.

Originally Posted by ReDSanchous

Speaking of good books, I would really like to read a book by Viktor Frankl (not sure that I'm spelling his name correctly). He was a psychiatrist supporting Freid's theory at the beginning of his psyciatric carreer but later on he changed his outlook. The thing is he was Jewish and was a prisoner of a Nazi death camp. While in the camp, he went through a very difficult time and saw a lot of violent killings. Once when he was still in the death camp, he realised that despite all the torment he had to suffer, he still had freedom inside himself. Little by little, that new feeling overwhelmed him, resulting in a dramatic change of his life philosophy. His new outlook on life was as follows: "I have internal freedom that you no one can change but me. I have the freedom of choice". Luckily, he was not killed in the camp and once freed, he wrote a book called "Man's Search for Meaning", in which he gave an explanation of that new outlook.

The most amazing thing is I haven't read this book yet but I really want to. The desire to read the book came while I was reading Stephen Covey's book called "The 7 habits of highly effective people". I don't know why but I think it's [Man's Search for Meaning] a very good read. Has anybody read this book?

Freud's theory

Originally Posted by Mordan

This book written in French by an American on the eastern front of the WWII is just SHOCKING, BREATHTAKING and PAINFULLY BEAUTIFUL.

It got 2 the most pretigious FRENCH prizes of litterature. There are russian words in it, and ukrainian. It is the story of a SS officer. Ah yea it is 900 pages

Mordan -

sounds great - where did you get that book? Maybe name the author too, it'll be easier to look out for it...

You can get it at Amazon.fr:


http://www.amazon.fr/Bienveillantes-Gon ... F8&s=books