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And the show went on : cultural life in Nazi-occupied Paris / by Alan Riding

By:

Riding, Alan

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 2010.Edition: 1st edDescription: xiii, 399 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cmISBN:

9780307268976

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DDC classification:

944.361 RID

LOC classification:

D802.F82 P3772 2010

Contents:

Everyone on stage -- Not so drôle -- Shall we dance? -- L'américain -- Paris by night -- Resistance as an idea -- Maréchal, nous voilà! -- Vivace, ma non troppo -- A ripped canvas -- Äktschen! -- Mirroring the past -- Writing for the enemy -- Chez Florence -- "On the side of life" -- The pendulum swings -- Vengeance and amnesia -- Surviving at a price.

Summary: Throughout this penetrating and unsettling account, Riding keeps alive the quandaries facing many of these artists. Were they "saving" French culture by working? Were they betraying France if they performed before German soldiers or made movies with Nazi approval? Was it the intellectual's duty to take up arms against the occupier? Then, after Paris was liberated, what was deserving punishment for artists who had committed "intelligence with the enemy"? By throwing light on this critical moment of twentieth-century European cultural history, And the Show Went On focuses anew on whether artists and writers have a special duty to show moral leadership in moments of national trauma. -- Publisher Description

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	944.361 RID (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		065624

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"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-378) and index.

Throughout this penetrating and unsettling account, Riding keeps alive the quandaries facing many of these artists. Were they "saving" French culture by working? Were they betraying France if they performed before German soldiers or made movies with Nazi approval? Was it the intellectual's duty to take up arms against the occupier? Then, after Paris was liberated, what was deserving punishment for artists who had committed "intelligence with the enemy"? By throwing light on this critical moment of twentieth-century European cultural history, And the Show Went On focuses anew on whether artists and writers have a special duty to show moral leadership in moments of national trauma. -- Publisher Description

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