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... of the objectives of our roundtable was to reflect on recent representations of the Second World War, and on works of fiction in particular. To begin, could you comment on this "new phase" in France, regarding the memory of Vichy? Henry Rousso: When speaking of a "new phase," I am of course referring...

... l'avant-garde, de son elitisme et de sa volonte de rupture. lIse tourne vers la poesie medievale" (Murat 198; emphasis mine). Aragon took the Vichy and fascist nostalgia for a golden Middle Ages and subverted it to his own devices, using Occitan troubadour poetry and the trohar clus (encrypted troubadour...

... the political implications of certain chapters of Suite franfaise. He admits no ambiguity in Nemirovsky's intentions, which are to oppose the ideology of Vichy's Revolution Nationale through satirizing its proponents and believers. For some reason he appears to believe that I disagree with this and accuses me...

... that cut France into two parts, Germany implemented a whole range of degrading, oppressive, and anti-Semitic measures, only to also annex, in 1942, the allegedly 54 2 BOOK REVIEWS free republic of the Vichy regime. After the war, it was France who, as member of the victorious allied forces and one...

... of the Vichy government's responsibility, as Watts points out, they illustrate basic problems inherent in addressing and screening the war. Elliot Neaman in his essay explores the particularly intriguing question of Ernst Junger and his vastly different reception as a writer in postwar France and Germany...

... II and its memory today. I was one of three speakers invited. The other two invitees were Henry Rousso, who had charted the memory of les annees noires in postwar France in The Vichy Syndrome among many other works, and the novelist Laurent Binet, author of the internationally best-selling novel HHhH...

... 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...

...? 4. Henry Rousso, The Vichy Syndrome: History and Memory in France since 1944, trans. Arthur Goldhammer (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1991). 9° INTERVIEW WITH LAURENT BINET LB: The book was very well received in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia. I often found this rather moving. The Czechs and Slovaks...

... asked him to cut the final part of the narrative: a section that offers a critical account of the Vichy regime in Algeria. This editorial intervention not only occluded the critical Algerian perspective on France, but also paved the way for the consumption of the novel as an ethnographic portrait...

... to an ethnological account of life on the island "W." It has been noted by Michel Sirvent (1997) that, though the second text "Le souvenir d'enfance" which makes up this hybrid novel is an autobiographical account of Perec's childhood in Vichy France, the overall text (made up of the interlacing chapters) cannot...

... antisemite whose views became Vichy's ideological grounding for its revolution nationale, that is, on the surface one who was in absolute contradiction with Aragon's most fervent beliefs during the German/Nazi Occupation of France. And yet or so it seems to me, I can see a transhistorical structural...

... had recently been elected mayor of the town after representing it for nine years in the Chambre des Deputes. Tillon's predecessor as mayor for the previous twenty-two years was Pierre Laval, whose cabinet posts during the collaborationist Vichy government resulted in his postwar arrest, trial...

... it. It is usually related to the collaborationist policies of the Vichy regilne, for which it provided a certain ideological legit- itnacy. In De la Beaute c(Jl1l1nel'iolence Michel Lacroix bases his discussion of French fascislll on an analysis of the works of a select group of fictional writers, I1lOSt of wholn...

... the history of French literature. Yet does this suffice to make Proust a “prophète de malheur” in disguise? If so, how did his work look during the contested period leading up to Vichy, years during which he was supposedly forgotten? Critics who study the novel as a “theory of French society” often do so...

... course of the Evre seemed to bathe in a more rarefied, precious light. The last time I saw the wash-shed of La Gueriniere, a number of years ago now, the tops of the slender columns still held up the canopy, but it had half-sunk into a bank of clay-a pityful sight, like the Vichy fleet scuttled...

... Vichy. À juste titre, Francis Ambrière considérait que la réhabilitation de Baudelaire en 1949 privait l’auteur des « Litanies de Satan » de « sa posture de paria ». Jean-François Louette rouvre le dossier du Baudelaire de Sartre, pour montrer que l’apparent procès à charge qu’institue Sartre...

..., Cogniot voit dans cette loi « une initiative importante pour la défense des droits de la pensée 46 ». L’exposé des motifs de la loi établit clairement un parallèle entre le Second Empire, qui a condamné Baudelaire, et le régime de Vichy, « périodes réactionnaires de notre histoire » dont le...

... professionnel en quelque sorte : anarchiste d'abord, puis communiste, et, maintenant, vichyssois "regularly heard on the Vichy radio, broadcasting to the strains of the Marseil- a3. The Bells of Basel (Les Cloches de Bale) avait paru New-York, en 1936, dans une traduction de Haakon Chevalier. 154 JEAN ALBERTINI...

... as to describe himself, on one occasion, as a cross between Humphrey Bogart, Fernandel, and a samurai. We also know that in a 1945 essay condemning the cultural politics of Vichy, Camus once again blamed Fernandel, accusing CAMUS AND FILM 137 the actor of making movies during the occupation that had served...

... (Gallimard, 2009). Fay was connected with Columbia since 1920-21, when he came as a lecturer in French literature at the University Extension, and he would later become, in 1932, a professor of American civilization at the College de France. Director of the Bibliotheque nationale under Vichy, he...