Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard FaØ, and the Vichy Dilemma

Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard FaØ, and the Vichy Dilemma
ISBN-10
0231152639
ISBN-13
9780231152631
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
320
Language
English
Published
2013-05-14
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Author
Barbara Will

Description

From 1941 to 1943, the Jewish American writer and avant-garde icon Gertrude Stein translated for an American audience thirty-two speeches in which Marshal Philippe Petain, head of state for the collaborationist Vichy government, outlined the Vichy policy barring Jews and other "foreign elements" from the public sphere while calling for France to reconcile with its Nazi occupiers. Why and under what circumstances would Stein undertake such a project? The answers lie in Stein's link to the man at the core of this controversy: Bernard Faÿ, her apparent Vichy protector. Barbara Will outlines the formative powers of this relationship, treating their interaction as a case study of intellectual life during wartime France and an indication of America's place in the Vichy imagination.

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