This text concerns the trial that is now considered to be the most significant in late-20th-century France. The book brings together the crucial French journalistic pieces on the trial as well as contributions from leading French, British and American scholars. Together they contextualize this important event, delving deeply into the most explosive issues in recent French history.
This text concerns the trial that is now considered to be the most significant in late-20th-century France. The book brings together the crucial Frenc...
This text concerns the trial that is now considered to be the most significant in late-20th-century France. The book brings together the crucial French journalistic pieces on the trial as well as contributions from leading French, British and American scholars. Together they contextualize this important event, delving deeply into the most explosive issues in recent French history.
This text concerns the trial that is now considered to be the most significant in late-20th-century France. The book brings together the crucial Frenc...
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.
Discussing the fiction, essays, and journalism of Henry de Montherlant, Jean Giono, and Alphonse de Chateaubriant, Golsan...
Focusing on the political commitments of three French writers who collaborated with the Vichy Regime and Nazi Germany during World War II, and on t...
One of the distinctive features of the "Vichy Syndrome" the persistence of the memory of the Vichy regime in French political and cultural life is that it has been extremelydifficult for an authoritative historical discourse to impose itself. Why does Vichy, and all that the name entails, fascinate and even obsess the French, inflecting not only discussions of the past but of the present as well?
In Vichy's Afterlife, Richard J. Golsan explores the complexities of some of the most provocative episodes of Vichy's curious persistence in France's national consciousness. He argues that...
One of the distinctive features of the "Vichy Syndrome" the persistence of the memory of the Vichy regime in French political and cultural life is tha...