French writers and the politics of complicity
Subtitle: crises of democracy in the 1940s and 1990s
By: Richard J. Golsan.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: Authors, French -- 20th century -- Political and social views.
Description: "Focusing on the political commitments of three French writers who collaborated with the Vichy Regime and Nazi Germany during World War II, and on those of three leading French intellectuals of the 1990s whose misplaced political idealism led them to support xenophobic, authoritarian regimes and dangerous historical revisionisms, Richard J. Golsan reexamines the notion of political commitment or engagement in two difficult periods in modern French history."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Henry de Montherlant : political complicity and the wages of ambivalence; title: Complicity and Apocalypse : Châteaubriant, nazism, and millenarianism; title: Giono : complicity, pacifism, and the place of the "poet"; title: Alain Finkielkraut and Croatia : sovereignty, nationalism, and european memory; title: The "Debray Affair"; title: Through nazism darkly : Stéphane Courtois, historical revisionism, and the Black book of communism controversy.