Journal of European Studies articles from March 1993

Journal of European Studies archives from March 1993

The Civilian in War: The Home Front in Europe, Japan and the USA in World War II.
March 1, 1993... In Russia in fact, and in Germany in myth, it was the collapse of morale on the home front which led to defeat in the First World War. The authorities were determined that this should not happen in the Second, and they succeeded. In Great...

Jean-Paul Sartre.
March 1, 1993... Michel Contat, one of the editors of the Pleaide edition of Sartre's work, may not know or may have chosen to ignore Philip Thody as a critic and biographer of Sartre (:165). If this is so the loss is his. Few, if any, have pursued Sartre for...

Les Annees noires: vivres sous l'Occupation.
March 1, 1993... Les Annees noires: vivre sous I'Occupation. By Henry Rousso. (Collection Decouvertes No. 156). Paris: Gallimard, 1992. Pp. 192. FF80. Memoires de la 'Dame d'Izieu': Avant propos de Francois Mitterrand. By Sabine Zlatin. (Collection...

Memoires de la 'Dame d'Izieu': Avant propos de Francois Mitterrand.
March 1, 1993... Les Annees noires: vivre sous I'Occupation. By Henry Rousso. (Collection Decouvertes No. 156). Paris: Gallimard, 1992. Pp. 192. FF80. Memoires de la 'Dame d'Izieu': Avant propos de Francois Mitterrand. By Sabine Zlatin. (Collection...

Oublier Vichy? A propos de l'arret Touvier.
March 1, 1993... The interviews on which this little book are based are a cry of indignation, of protest and of anger. The Touvier affair has caused widespread unrest throughout France, but Theo Klein, himself Jewish and a child during the Occupation, has a...

Intellectuals and the French Communist Party: Disillusion and Decline.
March 1, 1993... Ever since David Caute's pioneering Communism and the French Intellectuals (1964) and especially during the last decade, this broad subject has, in one way or another, provoked interest and investigation. The principal focus of this...

Les Lois de Vichy.
March 1, 1993... The general title of the new collection in which these two volumes are published is 'Retour au texte'. In the first we are presented with a selection of the so-called laws promulgated by the Vichy regime during the Occupation; in the second are...

Crimes et humanite.
March 1, 1993... The general title of the new collection in which these two volumes are published is 'Retour au texte'. In the first we are presented with a selection of the so-called laws promulgated by the Vichy regime during the Occupation; in the second are...

Ideology, cultural politics and literary collaboration at La Gerbe. (French weekly review published during World War II)
March 1, 1993... Of the major weekly reviews published in Paris during the Occupation, perhaps none is more representative of the period itself and the spirit of collaboration with Nazi Germany than La Gerbe. Created |out of whole cloth' by the German Embassy...

Fascist ideology and theater under the Occupation: the case of Anouilh. (Jean Anouilh's work during World War II)
March 1, 1993... The extraordinary flourishing of the French theatre under the German Occupation continues to pose unresolved questions. Was the Comedie Francaise a haven for the dissemination of French culture and thus of nationalist spirit in defiance of the...

Publish and perish: the 'epuration' of French intellectuals. (post-World War II collaboration trials)
March 1, 1993... Where an oeuvre had the duty of creating immortality, it now attains the right to kill, to become the murderer of its own author.' M. Foucault, 'What is an author?' Analyses of the post-war trials of French intellectuals have...

A certain idea of France: Ernst Junger's Paris diaries 1941-44.
March 1, 1993... Wir sassen dann eine Weile auf der Place du Tertre im Garten der Mere Catherine und gingen danach in Schneckenlinien um Sacre Coeur herum. Die Stadt ist eine zweite geistige Heimat fiir mich geworden, wird immer starker zum Inbild...

A forgotten novel of the Resistance: Pierre Courtade's 'Elseneur.' (France during World War II)
March 1, 1993... . . .si, un jour, un historien, informe par des confidences tardives, disait ce qu'il savait, les honnetes gens auraient peine a croire. Il serait accuse de schematisme et d'avoir pousse au noir. S'il romancait cette histoire, il...

Andre Labarthe and Raymond Aron: political myth and ideology in 'La France libre.' (French Resistance publication during World War II)
March 1, 1993... The history of the monthly review, La France libre, deserves a special place among the more paradoxical features of the Free French movements in London during the Occupation. The review was founded in November 1940 at de Gaulle's invitation and...

Facing history: Mauriac and Levinas on Nazism. (Francois Mauriac and Emmanuel Levinas)
March 1, 1993... The singular development of Mauriac's career during the Nazi occupation of France has been widely recognized:[1] after penning, at the height of France's debacle in 1940, two pieces ('La Verite' and 'La France en cellule', both published in the...

French Catholic intellectuals during the occupation. (World War II)
March 1, 1993... Among the images of chagrin and pitie, the tales of bravery and treachery, little is to be heard of the French Catholic intellectuals. Even in the post-war polemics which intermittently summoned one or other of them to declare 'dans quel camp...

Independent publishing in Vichy France: the case of Pierre Seghers's 'Poesie.'
March 1, 1993... The first number of Poesie 40 begins with an editorial by Pierre Seghers which sums up the review's ambitions in the title 'Maintenir': Voici donc ce premier cahier de 'Poesie 40', qui est aussi le cinquieme numero de notre bulletin...

Abandoning pacifism: the case of Sartre (1939-1940). (Jean Paul Sartre)
March 1, 1993... The asocial nature of Sartre's thought before the Second World War was noted by many of his critics, by Sartre himself first of all. Only with the events of the late 30s -- the Anschluss in March 1938, then the Munich crisis of the following...

Writing war in the feminine: de Beauvoir and Duras. (Simone de Beauvoir and Marguerite Duras during World War II)
March 1, 1993... Women's experience of war has left few traces in the canon of twentieth-century French literature; women's voices have long been characterized by their silence. World War I, the Great War, gave rise to a prodigious quantity of autobiographical...