And the show went on cultural life in Nazi-occupied Paris by Alan Riding
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TextLanguage: English Publisher: New York Knopf 2010Description: XIII, 399 S. Ill., Kt. 25 cmContent type: - Text
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- Band
- 9780307268976
- 944/.3610816 22
- D802.F82
- 8,1 | 8,2
- 15.65
- 15.24
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HAC Library - Holdings of the American Academy in Berlin HAC – 1st floor – Library Room – Open Stacks | R (Reference collection) | R:D802.F82 P3772 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 2023-1667 |
"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-378) and index
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.
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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