The French writers' war, 1940-1953 /
The French Writers' War, 1940-1953, is a remarkably thorough account of French writers and literary institutions from the beginning of the German Occupation through France's passage of amnesty laws in the early 1950s. To understand how the Occupation affected French literary production as...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English French |
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Durham ; London :
Duke University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Politics, history, and culture.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- The literary logics of political engagement
- Choices under constraints
- The responsibility of the writer
- Literary salvation and the literature of salvation: Franc̦ois Mauriac and Henry Bordeaux
- Literary institutions and national crisis
- The sense of duty: the French academy
- The sense of scandal: the Goncourt academy
- The sense of distinction: the "NRF spirit"
- The sense of subversion: the Comité National des Ecrivains (CNE)
- Literary justice
- The literary court
- Literary institutions and National reconstruction
- Presentation of the survey
- The social recruitment of the literary field and of its institutions.
