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Diary of the Dark Years, 1940-1944 - Collaboration, Resistance, and Daily Life in Occupied Paris (Paperback, annotated edition)
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Diary of the Dark Years, 1940-1944 - Collaboration, Resistance, and Daily Life in Occupied Paris (Paperback, annotated edition)
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Winner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for
Nonfiction Jean Guehenno's Diary of the Dark Years, 1940-1945 is
the most oft-quoted piece of testimony on life in occupied France.
A sharply observed record of day-to-day life under Nazi rule in
Paris and a bitter commentary on literary life in those years, it
has also been called "a remarkable essay on courage and cowardice"
(Caroline Moorehead, Wall Street Journal). Here, David Ball
provides not only the first English-translation of this important
historical document, but also the first ever annotated, corrected
edition. Guehenno was a well-known political and cultural critic,
left-wing but not communist, and uncompromisingly anti-fascist.
Unlike most French writers during the Occupation, he refused to pen
a word for a publishing industry under Nazi control. He expressed
his intellectual, moral, and emotional resistance in this diary:
his shame at the Vichy government's collaboration with Nazi
Germany, his contempt for its falsely patriotic reactionary
ideology, his outrage at its anti-Semitism and its vilification of
the Republic it had abolished, his horror at its increasingly
savage repression and his disgust with his fellow intellectuals who
kept on blithely writing about art and culture as if the Occupation
did not exist - not to mention those who praised their new masters
in prose and poetry. Also a teacher of French literature, he
constantly observed the young people he taught, sometimes saddened
by their conformism but always passionately trying to inspire them
with the values of the French cultural tradition he loved.
Guehenno's diary often includes his own reflections on the great
texts he is teaching, instilling them with special meaning in the
context of the Occupation. Complete with meticulous notes and a
biographical index, Ball's edition of Guehenno's epic diary offers
readers a deeper understanding not only of the diarist's cultural
allusions, but also of the dramatic, historic events through which
he lived.
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