Vichy Past in France Today - Corruptions of Memory

This study examines the continuing impact of the memory of the Vichy regime and World War II in France. It analyzes recent political and intellectual debates, trials and the passage of contentious laws, historical controversies, and literary works and argues that the country has not yet reconciled with its past.

List of contents

Chapter 1: France's Fractured Legal Vector of Memory
Chapter 2: The Le Pen Moment
Chapter 3: Alain Badiou's The Meaning of Sarkozy: "Transcendental Pétainism" and the Ossification of History
Chapter 4: Remaking the Mode Rétro: Perversion and the "Pulping" of History in Jonathan Litell's The Kindly Ones
Chapter 5: Revising History, Betraying Memory: Yannick Haenel's Jan Karski and the Jan Karski Affair

About the author

Richard J. Golsan is university distinguished professor and director of the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Golsan, Richard J. Golsan, Golsan Richard J.
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781498550345
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-5034-5
• No. of pages: 172
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; French, France, European History, HISTORY / Europe / France, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, Literary studies: general