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A French Tragedy: Scenes of Civil War, Summer 1944

Door Tzvetan Todorov

Categorie
WO II
Boeknummer
#327324-XD18
Titel
A French Tragedy: Scenes of Civil War, Summer 1944
Auteur
Todorov, Tzvetan
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Hanover, NH : University Press of New England
Jaar van uitgave
1996
ISBN10
0874517478
ISBN13
9780874517477
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, XX,(2),138 pages, 8vo.
Samenvatting
As Allied troops landed in Normandy in 1944, members of the local French Resistance in the small town of Saint-Amand-Montrond embarked on an ill-fated attempt to liberate their town. Based on noble but politically questionable motives, and failing to inspire broader support, the incident quickly devolved from confrontation to a stand-off and ultimately to a tragedy. Resistance forces took and subsequently executed hostages; their opponents, the milice - collaborationist French police - and German soldiers rounded up 70 Jewish adults and children in retaliation and put many to a horrible death. Eminent literary and cultural critic Tzvetan Todorov examines the episode as history but also as a moral paradigm. Finding similar failures on both sides, he also cites "a qualitative difference... (Lees verder) between the two, an irreducible asymmetry, which resides in their ideals, in totalitarianism versus democracy." Suspenseful, compelling, and uncompromisingly honest, A French Tragedy goes beyond the events themselves to ponder the nature of sacrifice, of suffering, and of individual responsibility in a world where civil war still thrives.
Pagina's
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Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 12,50

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