Reconstructing the past : representations of the Fascist era in post-war European culture / edited by Graham Bartram, Maurice Slawinski and David Steel.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reconstruction of the past in post-war European culture : a comparative approach / Graham Bartram -- Révolution, renaissance, redressement : representations of historical change in post-war France / Michael Kelly -- Post-war Italian culture : renewal or legacy of the past? / David Forgács -- Fiction: Reconstructing the occupation : Sartre and Beauvoir / Terry Keefe -- Crisis in humanism : the aftermath of the second world war in some French best sellers, 1945-1960 / Alastair Duncan -- Sons and fathers : West German writers' private perspectives on a public past / Anthony Waine -- Writing in the shadow of Auschwitz : literary perspectives on the GDR's failure to overcome its past / Dennis Tate -- Youth, hope and ambiguity : the Ragazzo figure in Pavese's La casa in collina / Francesca Gibson -- Moravia, Vittorini, Pavese, Calvino : Fascism, allegory, humanism / David Robey -- Film: Reconstructing the past through cinema : the occupation of France / Keith Reader -- Edgar Reitz's Heimat : poetic evocations of a Nazi past / Colin Townsend -- Bertolucci : an Italian intellectual of the 1970s looks at Italy's Fascist past / Christopher Wagstaff.