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Pierre Courtade - The Making of a Party Scribe (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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Pierre Courtade - The Making of a Party Scribe (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
Series: Berg French Studies Series
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Pierre Courtade (1915-1963) was recognised by his peer group to be
an independent, sharply intelligent thinker and a talented writer.
His principal work consists of journalism -- near daily articles in
the Communist press during the late 1940s and 1950s -- six novels
(two unpublished) and two volumes of short stories.
This first study of Courtade examines the conflict between his
private and public personas and in particular his role as a
political commentator and as an artist struggling to reconcile his
talent with the demands made by Party ideology. Courtade's life and
work is analysed in light of archival material and interviews with
people who knew and worked with him. The author assesses Courtade's
contribution to French left-wing intellectual life and places him
in the context of the evolution of French intellectuals' political
commitment in the 20th century. As witness to some of the most
critical periods in French history -- the Occupation and the
Resistance, the Cold War and French involvement in Indo-China --
Courtade's responses provide fascinating insights and a new
perspective on this turbulent time.
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