The collaborator
Subtitle: the trial & execution of Robert Brasillach
By: Alice Kaplan.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: Brasillach, Robert, 1909-1945 -- Political and social views; World War, 1939-1945 -- Collaborationists -- France; Fascism and literature -- France -- History -- 20th century; Intellectuals -- France -- Political activity; Authors, French -- 20th century -- Biography; Trials (Treason) -- France; Fascism -- France; France -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Genres: Biography.
Description: "On February 6, 1945, a thirty-five-year-old French writer and newspaper editor named Robert Brasillach was executed for treason by a French firing squad. He was the only writer of any distinction to be put to death by the French Liberation government during the violent days of score-settling known as the Purge.

In this book, Alice Kaplan tells the story of Brasillach's rise and fall: his emergence as the golden boy of literary fascism during the 1930s, his wartime collaboration with the Nazis, his dramatic trial, and his afterlife as a martyr for French rightists and Holocaust revisionists."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-287) and index.