...Thomas Dodman TD2551@columbia.edu Matilda Greig , Dead Men Telling Tales: Napoleonic War Veterans and the Military Memoir Industry, 1808–1914 . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2021 . Copyright © 2023 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2023...

...Dominique Jullien Dominique ]ullien ARAGON, ELSA TRIOLET: LOVE AND POLITICS IN THE COLD WAR O n October 13-14,2000 at Columbia University's Maison Fran~aise an international and interdiciplinary conference was held on Aragon, Elsa Triolet: Love and Politics in the time of the Cold War. 1 Many...

...Irwin Wall Copyright © 2001 The Trustees of Columbia University 2001 Irwin Wall THE PCF, STALINISM, AND THE COLD WAR I must admit my great surprise when I was invited to speak at a conference on Louis Aragon. Aragon, arguably more than any other French intellectual in this century, identified...

...Dawn Fulton Copyright © 2004 The Trustees of Columbia University 2004 Dawn Fulton CAJOU'S REASON: MICHELE LACROSIL AND POST-WAR INTELLECTUAL LIBERALISM Les choses que ['on tait sont-elles moins pernicieuses? Michele Lacrosil, Cajou Cajou, the eponymous heroine of Michele Lacrosil's second...

...: France and Germany in Love and War. Eds. Aminia M. Brueggemann and Peter Schulman. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. Pp. 304. Over the centuries, relations between France and Germany have oscillated between the extremes of love and hatred with all the different shades of emotions...

...Leonid Livak Copyright © 2000 The Trustees of Columbia University 2000 Leonid Livak THE PLACE OF SUICIDE IN THE FRENCH AVANT-GARDE OF THE INTER-WAR PERIOD T he cult of artistic and existential evasion in Dada and surrealism made suicide a leitmotif of literary life in inter-war France...

...Jessie Hock Copyright © 2013 The Trustees of Columbia University 2013 Jessie Hock WAGING LOVING WAR: LUCRETIUS AND THE POETRY OF REMY BELLEAU I n 1558 Joachim du Bellay completed the first translation of Lucretius into French, twenty-two lines from the beginning of De rerum natura (henceforth...

...Jonathan Weiss Nathan Bracher . After the Fall: War and Occupation in Irène Némirovsky’s Suite française . Washington, DC : Catholic University of America Press , 2010 . Pp. 268 . Copyright © 2013 The Trustees of Columbia University 2013 174 BOOK REVIEWS cultural conversation...

...Rachel Mesch Nicholas White . French Divorce Fiction from the Revolution to the First World War . London : Legenda , 2012 . Pp. 205 . Copyright © 2013 The Trustees of Columbia University 2013 BOOK REVIEWS problems are, as the author suggests, matter for another book entirely...

...Richard J. Golsan Copyright © 2014 The Trustees of Columbia University 2014 Richard]. Go/san THE POETICS AND PERILS OF FACTION: CONTEMPORARY FRENCH FICTION AND THE MEMORY OF WORLD WAR II I n an essay published in the summer 2011 special issue of Le Debat entitled "L'Histoire saisie par la...

...Richard J. Golsan Copyright © 2014 The Trustees of Columbia University 2014 Richard]. Go/san REMEMBERING WORLD WAR II IN TODAY'S FRANCE: ITS PRECEDENTS AND LEGACIES I n October 2012, Phil Watts organized a roundtable at Columbia University's Maison Fran~aise devoted to the topic of World War...

...Michael Meere Copyright © 2013 The Trustees of Columbia University 2013 Michael Meere VIOLENCE, REVENGE, AND THE STAKES OF WRITING DURING THE FRENCH CIVIL WARS: SIMON BELYARD'S LE GUYS/EN W hen Henri III had the Guise brothers killed, mutilated, and cremated and then disposed of their ashes...

..., jealous lover vs. the philosophe misanthrope , the world champion of sincerity), permanently at war with himself, in a war he is bound to lose. The article concludes that Molière constructs much of the famously conversational dramatic texture and indeterminate conclusion not through “successful” speech...

...Nassime Chida Abstract This article uses historical scholarship on Guido da Montefeltro and medieval Romagna (Franceschini and Vasina) alongside Ovid’s Metamorphosis and the Serventese del 1277 to contextualize the question asked by the soul of Guido (about peace or war in Romagna) and the catalog...

... whether such individualized care is merely self-indulgent or whether it is very much needed in the aftermath of the massive trauma of the Wars of Religion. Thus, in all that they do at this banquet, the hermaphrodites seem to be following contemporary advice on how to live a measured, healthy life...

... to James Fenimore Cooper): "I have a terrible fear of looking like an abominable man, making horror for pleasure [faisant de l'horreur aplaisir4 Thus emerges the challenge of representing horror, war, and genocide: When does the just or even righteous reflection of bad things (as 3. Deborah Jenson...

... 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...

... enthusiastic, praising Tarantino's "audaciousness" in inventing an ending that is "pure Hollywood. Hitler will die where? In a movie theater. And who will kill him? Some Jews."g Roger Ebert, for his part, exulted that Tarantino "provides World War II with a much-needed alternative ending. For once the basterds...

..., constructive political agenda to which the revolutionary is committed. It is against the backdrop of Bataille's Le Bleu du ciel that I examine these issues in L'Espoir, for Bataille's novel, set in Barcelona during the civil war, also depicts the fascination with death and the convulsive agitation common...

... borrowed from the ancients and from his contemporaries. There is a tension present between society and the self that is present when he tells a story in which he is a central figure. Geralde Nakam remarks on the tension in Book III between the turbulence of the eighth religious war and Montaigne's reaction...