Allegories of the purge : how literature responded to the postwar trials of writers and intellectuals in France / Philip Watts.

Publication | Library Call Number: PQ307.W4 W38 1998

Physical Description: vi, 222 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Literature on trial
Sartre : sentencing literature
Blanchot : rebuttals
Eluard : purging poetry
Céline : style wars
Céline : denying history
Conclusion : the spirit of the trial.
ISBN: 0804731845
0804731853 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-216) and index.

Literature on trial -- Sartre : sentencing literature -- Blanchot : rebuttals -- Eluard : purging poetry -- Céline : style wars -- Céline : denying history -- Conclusion : the spirit of the trial.
Subjects: Trials (Treason)--France--History--20th century.
Intellectuals--France--Political activity.
French literature--20th century--History and criticism.
World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--France.
World War, 1939-1945--Literature and the war.
France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
Trials (Treason) in literature.
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