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 literary life. What one might call his ‘availability’ comes out in his attitude towards Lucien Rebatet, one of the most notorious collaborators. Rebatet, rabidly anti-semitic, had been a journalist on Je suis partout before the war and wrote a bestseller during the Vichy years, Les Décombres. He was tried ... ”