Too Much Gide
Douglas Johnson: French writers (1940-53), 15 November 2001
La Guerre des écrivains 1940-53
by Gisèle Sapiro.
Fayard, 807 pp., frs 220, September 1999,2 213 60211 5 Show More
by Gisèle Sapiro.
Fayard, 807 pp., frs 220, September 1999,
Correspondance: Marcel Arland – Jean Paulhan 1936-45
edited by Jean-Jacques Didier.
Gallimard, 397 pp., frs 140, March 2000,2 07 075789 7 Show More
edited by Jean-Jacques Didier.
Gallimard, 397 pp., frs 140, March 2000,
Dialogue des ‘vaincus’: Prison de Clairvaux, janvier-décembre 1950
by Lucien Rebatet and Pierre-Antoine Cousteau, edited by Robert Belot.
Berg, 285 pp., frs 120, March 2000,2 911289 22 6 Show More
by Lucien Rebatet and Pierre-Antoine Cousteau, edited by Robert Belot.
Berg, 285 pp., frs 120, March 2000,
The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach
by Alice Kaplan.
Chicago, 320 pp., £9.50, December 2000,0 226 42415 4 Show More
by Alice Kaplan.
Chicago, 320 pp., £9.50, December 2000,
“... French people, writers wanted to return to the normal and familiar. Some had good reason to do so. Henri Membré, for example, is quoted by Sapiro as saying that it was all very well for Gide to say that he didn’t intend to go on writing in the prevailing circumstances, because Gide’s reputation was secure. But he, Membré, had published just one ... ”
