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This book is about four writers—Sartre, Eluard, Blanchot, and Celine—whose works confront and respond to the purge of collaborationist intellectuals in postwar France.

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"[Watts's] arguments are original, he takes risks, and the stakes are significant." -- South Central Review
"Four authors—Jean-Paul Sartre, Paul Eluard, Maurice Blanchot, and Louis-Ferdinand Celine—whose works confront and respond to the purge of collaborationist intellectuals in postwar France are the subjects of this volume. . . . To understand their views on the trials, it is useful to read their texts as allegories of the purge. . . . The book won the Modern Language Association of America's 2000 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for the best book in French and Francophone Literary Studies." -- Coastlines

Table of Contents
Introduction 1. Literature on trial 2. Sartre: sentencing literature 3. Blanchot: rebuttals 4. Eluard: purging poetry 5. Ce;line: style wars 6. Ce;line: denying history Conclusion: the spirit of the trial Bibliography Index.

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      Publisher: Stanford University Press
      Publication Date: 01/12/1998
      ISBN13: 9780804731850, 978-0804731850
      ISBN10: 0804731853
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      Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book is about four writers—Sartre, Eluard, Blanchot, and Celine—whose works confront and respond to the purge of collaborationist intellectuals in postwar France.

      Trade Review
      "[Watts's] arguments are original, he takes risks, and the stakes are significant." -- South Central Review
      "Four authors—Jean-Paul Sartre, Paul Eluard, Maurice Blanchot, and Louis-Ferdinand Celine—whose works confront and respond to the purge of collaborationist intellectuals in postwar France are the subjects of this volume. . . . To understand their views on the trials, it is useful to read their texts as allegories of the purge. . . . The book won the Modern Language Association of America's 2000 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for the best book in French and Francophone Literary Studies." -- Coastlines

      Table of Contents
      Introduction 1. Literature on trial 2. Sartre: sentencing literature 3. Blanchot: rebuttals 4. Eluard: purging poetry 5. Ce;line: style wars 6. Ce;line: denying history Conclusion: the spirit of the trial Bibliography Index.

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