... canonized works of literature. In his interviews with Fran~ois Truffaut, he said that he would never make a film of Crime and Punishment, because the novel is "someone else's achievement." He goes on, though, to offer a less self-regarding reason, invoking the autonomy of the literary work of art...

... in the late 1980s and 1990s was, Rousso argues, the impulse to retroactively define the crimes of the past in legal terms and to judge and make amends for them in the present. The outcome was, of course, the trials for crimes against humanity of the Nazi Klaus Barbie and Vichy officials Paul Touvier...

...-'l'abolition pure, simple et definitive de la peine de mort'etait realise" (272). Hugo was a part of a major movement for abolition in the 1820s and 1830s, itself a phase of the larger modern movement, begun in 1764 by the Italian Cesare Beccaria's treatise Dei Defitti e Delle Pene (On Crimes and Punishments...

... page, a two-paragraph statement indicated that what followed was the work of a “philosopher,” a “poet,” or even a man executed for a crime. Its text consists of some forty-nine chapters, the forty-seventh no more than a number and a note, while the facsimile of the handwritten words to a song literally...

.... 6. Pour le rapprochement de Baudelaire avec Sade cf . Michel Brix, « Des Crimes de l’amour aux Fleurs du Mal . Baudelaire lecteur de Sade », dans L’Année Baudelaire , n o 15, 2011, p. 11–24. 7. Pour le type du criminel, cf . « Le Vin de l’assassin » ( Œuvres complètes , éd. cit., t. I...

... to her d­ aughter s bed, while the bodies of her husband and ­mother lay nearby, apparently dead of strangulation. Mme Steinheil, the only survivor of the attack, told an improbable story of the crime. A red-h­ eaded ­woman and three robed men broke into the ­house intending to rob it. Surprised to find...

... knew of the Soviet reality and chose to mask; the innocence of Stalin's victims in the purges, the dimensions of Stalin's crimes, the size and conditions within the Gulag and the rest. In conversations with several former communists of the period on his influence I gained the impression that he...

... but lingering; they appear to hope to put it out of its misery. The book, or compendium, has three distinct theses. One is that crime and repression are of the "essence" of communism as a system anywhere and everywhere it has exercised power. Lenin is held responsible for Stalin's crimes, and an absolute...

... The Trustees of Columbia University INTERVIEW WITH HENRY Rousso regarding its legacies. The state was put under pressure by various groups, particularly by associations striving for the recognition of crimes that had been committed against Jews by the Vichy Regime. This emergence of the impact of public...

... amene Neron a perpetrer un premier crime, l'empoisonnement de Britannicus ; psychologique, elle libere ce meme Neron de toute forme de dependance, au risque de Ie faire basculer dans la solitude la plus totale ; philosophique, elle demande que soient interroges les conditions de l'exercice du pouvoir et...

...Andrew J. Counter Copyright © 2011 The Trustees of Columbia University 2011 Andrew]. Counter A SENTIMENTAL AFFAIR: vERITE O n 29 November 1899, ten days after President Emile Loubet signed an instrument pardoning Alfred Dreyfus for a crime that no one now believed he had committed, Emile Zola...

... and Vache's deaths recalled the "gratuitous act" as exemplified by the character of Lafcadio from Andre Gide's novel Les Caves du Vatican (1916). Lafcadio kills a man "for no reason," committing a purely gratuitous crime. According to Jean Cocteau, Cravan had served as Lafcadio's prototype (Conover 252...

... souffrances et des supplices inouis qu'a eprouve un peuple infortune pendant des siecles. Mon sang se glace dans mes veines. (39) Comment depeindre Ie crime? (44) Quelle expression pourrai-je employer pour depeindre tant d'horreurs? Je n'en connais pas. Les fleurs et les ornements conviennent ades tableaux...

... the fact that Emma's crime is resolved, the story is unfathomable. Rarely mentioned is that "Emma Zunz" reworks one of Borges's favorite story models, a narrative whose the protagonist invents a plot in which he or she has not only a principal but often a tragic role. That plot reduces a life of infinite...

... est, un observateur engage. Parfois enthousiaste, voire adithyrambique, parce qu'il assiste Ia naissance de I'ordre nouveau qu'il ap- pelle de ses vreux. Plus souvent indigne, il fait Ie proces d'un crime de I'Histoire, deplorant la ruine d'une civilisation, la chute d'un regime, un equilibre menace...

... in the first two images, which also indicates that he has not drawn it and thus has not shown aggression toward the king's men. This fact would confirm his innocence. Visually depicting the murder in both the play and iconography underlines Henri Ill's crime, a murder that violates natural and divine order...

... photography and filmmaking within avantgarde visual cultures in France between 1928 and 1946. To this end, I take a first cue from efforts by narrators of Daeninckx's crime novels (neo-polars) to disclose the causal trajectory of what appears at first to be a minor incident or crime. A second cue builds...

... fa ut qu'elles aient ete cimentees par de petits crimes" (967). Elsewhere the narrator refers to the two as "ces deux fines couleuvres" and remarks that Diane avoids a certain subject of conversation with her supposedly dearest friend as carefully as she would avoid wearing a yellow dress: "Diane...

... Universitaires de Vincennes, 2011. Platten, David. The Pleasures of Crime: Reading Modern French Crime Fiction. New York: Rodopi, 2010. Pryzchodniak, Zbigniew, and Gisele Seginger, eds. Fiction et histoire. Strasbourg: Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, 2011. BOOKS RECEIVED Puebla, Manuel de lao...

..., precisely Laurent's ambition: "II entendait vivre au soleil, apres Ie crime" (3: 70). There is, as Denis Hollier has suggested, something deeply problematic about "la maniere dont ce meurtre romanesque est noye par Ie journaliste," or, put differently, about this passage between murder and play, fratricide...