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9780791481998

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Arguably the most influential French writer of the early twentieth century, André Gide is a paradigmatic figure whose World War II writings offer an exemplary reflection of the challenges facing a leading writer in a time of national collapse. Tracing Gide's circuitous "intellectual itinerary" from the fall of France through the postwar purge, this book examines the ambiguous role of France's senior man of letters during the Second World War. The writer's intricate maneuverings offer privileged insights into three issues of broad significance: the relationship of literature and politics in France during World War II, the repressions and repositionings that continue to fuel controversy about the period, and the role of public intellectuals in times of national crisis.

With the exception of the early wartime Journal, Gide's publications during France's "dark years" have received little critical attention. This book scrutinizes the entire wartime oeuvre in depth, tracing the evolution of Gide's political views and, most importantly, reading the wartime texts against each other. It is the interplay among these texts that reveals the full complexity of Gide's political positionings and the rhetorical brilliance he deployed to redress his tarnished image.

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction

1. From Munich to Montoire: National Crisis and the Man of Letters

2. Accommodation and Reaction: The Wartime N.R.F.

3. Coded Messages: The “Interviews imaginaires”

4. Battles on the Home Front: Domestic Allegory in the Tunis Journal

5. Repositionings: Pages de Journal and Thésée

6. Coming Home: The Purge and the Aftermath

Epilogue

What Happened to André Gide

Notes
Works Cited
Index

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Publié par

State University of New York Press

Date de parution

01 février 2012

EAN13

9780791481998

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

1 Mo

France History of Europe

andré and the second world war gide

a novelist’s occupation

jocelynvan tuyl

André Gide and the Second World War

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A N D R É G I D E

A N D T H E

S E C O N D W O R L D W A R

A Novelist’s Occupation

J O C E LY N VA N T U Y L

S T AT E U N I V E R S I T Y O F N E W Y O R K P R E S S

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Van Tuyl, Jocelyn, 1964– André Gide and the second World War : a novelist’s occupation / Jocelyn Van Tuyl. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-10: 0-7914-6713-9 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-6713-8 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Gide, André, 1869–1951—Political and social views. 2. World War, 1939–1945— Literature and the war. I. Title.

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To the memory of Hélène Vitet

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Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

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Two

Three

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Five

Six

Contents

From Munich to Montoire: National Crisis and the Man of Letters

Accommodation and Reaction: The WartimeN.R.F.

Coded Messages: The “Interviews imaginaires”

Battles on the Home Front: Domestic Allegory in the TunisJournal

Repositionings:Pages de JournalandThésée

Coming Home: The Purge and the Aftermath

Epilogue What Happened to André Gide

Notes

Works Cited

Index

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Acknowledgments

Numerous individuals and organizations supported the completion of this project, and they all have my most sincere thanks. The inspiration for this book grew out of a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on “War and Memory: Postwar Representa-tions of World War II and the Occupation in France” held at Harvard Uni-versity. Seminar leader Susan Rubin Suleiman and my fellow seminar partic-ipants offered valuable advice and feedback in the early stages of this project. Financial support came in the form of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers, a University of South Florida International Travel Grant, numerous research and travel grants from the New College Faculty Development Fund, and the generous assistance of the New College Division of Humanities. Research for this book took me far afield. I wish to thank the librarians and staff of the Bibliothèque Littéraire Jacques Doucet and Fonds André Gide, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the Public Record Office in Kew, England, the British Library, and the Harvard and Yale University Libraries. Above all, the entire staff of Sarasota’s Jane Bancroft Cook Library has my deepest gratitude. I am indebted to Catherine Gide, who graciously granted me permission to consult manuscripts from her personal collection as well as those held by the Bibliothèque Littéraire Jacques Doucet. I also thank Pierre Masson and Martine Sagaert, who generously sent research materials across the Atlantic. An earlier version of chapter four was published inAndré Gide’s Politics: Rebellion and Ambivalence, edited by Tom Conner, © Tom Conner. Grateful acknowledgment is made to the original publisher, Palgrave Macmillan. Further thanks go to theBulletin des Amis d’André GideandFrancogra-phies, which also published early versions of some material in this book. This project could not have come to fruition without the practical, scholarly, and emotional support of a host of friends and colleagues. I would

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