New, reduced price! From the ''gathering storm'' before World War II to the aftermath of the Liberation, what was daily life like for French intellectuals? What were the issues to which they were held hostage or for which they served as spokesmen? How did they shape their political and moral debates, their anxieties, and their hopes? These questions are answered, with realism and sensitivity, in Collaboration and Resistance: French Literary Life Under the Nazi Occupation, the companion volume to the exhibition, which reproduces more than 650 archival documents illustrating the difficult situation faced by intellectuals during the dark years of the Nazi occupation. Introductions by exhibition curators Robert O. Paxton, Olivier Corpet, and Claire Paulhan. Includes a never-before-published excerpt from a lecture about the literary Resistance by Jean-Paul Sartre. 448 pages, 650 images - photographs, letters, documents. Originally priced at $45, Softcover and $65, Hardcover now priced at $17.95 and $45 respectively.
Item Number: 9780981969W
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