The French writers' war, 1940-1953 / Giséle Sapiro ; translated by Vanessa Doriott Anderson and Dorrit Cohn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sapiro, Gisèle, author.

Contributor:

Doriott Anderson, Vanessa, translator.

Cohn, Dorrit, translator.

Series:

Politics, history, and culture

Standardized Title:

Guerre des écrivains. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

France--Cultural policy--History--20th century.

France--Intellectual life--20th century.

Intellectuals--France--History--20th century.

Intellectuals--History--20th century--France.

Intellectuals.

Local Subjects:

France--Cultural policy--History--20th century.

France--Intellectual life--20th century.

Intellectuals--France--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (751 pages)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The French Writers' War, 1940-1953, is a remarkably thorough account of French writers and literary institutions from the beginning of the German Occupation through France's passage of amnesty laws in the early 1950s. To understand how the Occupation affected French literary production as a whole, Gisèle Sapiro uses Pierre Bourdieu's notion of the ""literary field."" Sapiro surveyed the career trajectories and literary and political positions of 185 writers. She found that writers' stances in relation to the Vichy regime are best explained in terms of institutional and structural f

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: The Literary Logics of Political Engagement; 1. Choices under Constraints; 2. The Responsibility of the Writer; 3. Literary Salvation and the Literature of Salvation: François Mauriac and Henry Bordeaux; Part II: Literary Institutions and National Crisis; 4. The Sense of Duty: The French Academy; 5. The Sense of Scandal: The Goncourt Academy; 6. The Sense of Distinction: The ""NRF Spirit""; 7. The Sense of Subversion: The Comité national des écrivains (CNE); Part III: Literary Justice; 8. The Literary Court

9. Literary Institutions and National ReconstructionAppendix 2: The Social Recruitment of the Literary Field and of Its Institutions; Conclusion; Appendix 1: Presentation of the Survey; Notes; Bibliography; Name Index

Notes:

Translation of: Guerre des écrivains.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)

ISBN:

9780822395126

0822395126

OCLC:

873034791