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Through the Past Darkly - History and Memory in Francois Mauriac's 'Bloc-notes' (Hardcover, New)
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Through the Past Darkly - History and Memory in Francois Mauriac's 'Bloc-notes' (Hardcover, New)
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Widely renowned as the 1952 Nobel Prize winning author of novels
depicting stark yet searing clashes of passion, possession,
society, and spirituality within the Catholic bourgeoisie of the
Bordeaux region, Francois Mauriac is now gaining long overdue
recognition as France's premier editorialist of the 1950s and
1960s. This book, the first English-language study of Mauriac's
Bloc-notes, presents these poignant, incisive editorials on social
justice, war, and human rights in postwar France as both
symptomatic of a culture imbued with the past and emblematic of a
Christian humanist's ethical approach to history and memory.
Francois Mauriac lived history past and present most intensely.
Filtering his perception of decolonization in general and the
Algerian war in particular through the tumultuous episodes of the
Crusades, the religious wars, the French Revolution, the Dreyfus
affair, and the German Occupation, he delivered the earliest and
most stinging indictments of torture and oppression in the Algerian
war. Through the Past Darkly explains how Mauriac returns to the
momentous figures and events of history neither to sacralize
France's past nor to justify its present but rather to narrate the
ongoing story of history as the universal human drama engaging the
political integrity of the French Republic as well as the moral
responsibility of each person. At the same time, the Bloc-notes
constitutes a ""place of memory,"" a deliberate crystallization of
the past aimed at rescuing the pathos of public and private
experience from oblivion. Mauriac, argues Nathan Bracher,
articulated a distinctive approach to history: in contrast to de
Gaulle's nationalist epic and Sartre's commitment to the dialectics
of class struggle, its lucid, uncompromising assessments of French
society and politics have withstood the test of time.
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