German writers in French exile, 1933-1940 / Martin Mauthner.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-248) and index.

"Weimar-on-Sea" : how Sanary becomes a writers' refuge -- A "slander" on Richard Wagner : the torment of Thomas Mann -- A French envoy drops a hint : Heinrich Mann the Francophile -- Warning in Washington : Lion Feuchtwanger portrays life under the "hooked cross" -- Émigrés as "deserters" : Klaus Mann's literary feud with Gottfried Benn -- Cleansing the "literary brothels" : German students celebrate their "bibliocaust" -- Rivalry in Ragusa : H.G. Wells treads the PEN tightrope -- "Seppl" and the "slimy frog" : a Jewish publisher stays on in Berlin -- "A reckless act"? : Klaus Mann launches his review -- Watching and waiting : Thomas Mann prepares his "politicum" -- "I have let my conscience speak" : Thomas Mann comes off the fence -- "The curtain falls" : a Berlin publisher's odyssey -- From bonds to Blitzkrieg : Leopold Schwarzschild bares Hitler's war plans -- "We have just saved culture" : the Paris Writers' Congress of 1935 -- "I came, I saw, I shall write" : Feuchtwanger's misguided mission to Moscow -- "Canaan-sur-Seine" : the strange end of the Pariser Tageblatt -- "Secret Kaiser" and "Red Czar" : Heinrich Mann, Willi Munzenberg, and the Volksfront -- Back from oblivion : postwar Germany's mixed feelings about its exile writers.