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Traces of War - Interpreting Ethics and Trauma in Twentieth-Century French Writing (Hardcover)
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Traces of War - Interpreting Ethics and Trauma in Twentieth-Century French Writing (Hardcover)
Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures, 49
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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool
University Press website and the OAPEN library. The legacy of the
Second World War remains unsettled; no consensus has been achieved
about its meaning and its lasting impact. This is pre-eminently the
case in France, where the experience of defeat and occupation
created the grounds for a deeply ambiguous mixture of resistance
and collaboration, pride and humiliation, heroism and abjection,
which writers and politicians have been trying to disentangle ever
since. This book develops a theoretical approach which draws on
trauma studies and hermeneutics; and it then focuses on some of the
intellectuals who lived through the war and on how their experience
and troubled memories of it continue to echo through their later
writing, even and especially when it is not the explicit topic.
This was an astonishing generation of writers who would go on to
play a pivotal role on a global scale in post-war aesthetic and
philosophical endeavours. The book proposes close readings of works
by some of the most brilliant amongst them: Jean-Paul Sartre,
Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Charlotte Delbo, Paul Ricoeur,
Emmanuel Levinas, Louis Althusser, Jorge Semprun, Elie Wiesel, and
Sarah Kofman.
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