04402nam 2200685Ia 450 991045777850332120200520144314.01-283-30068-097866133006830-231-52641-510.7312/will15262(CKB)2550000000056104(EBL)909380(OCoLC)818856683(SSID)ssj0000565222(PQKBManifestationID)11354487(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000565222(PQKBWorkID)10528336(PQKB)11112825(StDuBDS)EDZ0000927223(MiAaPQ)EBC909380(DE-B1597)459440(OCoLC)773692762(OCoLC)979832062(DE-B1597)9780231526418(Au-PeEL)EBL909380(CaPaEBR)ebr10502282(CaONFJC)MIL330068(EXLCZ)99255000000005610420110405d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrUnlikely collaboration[electronic resource] Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy dilemma /Barbara WillNew York Columbia University Pressc20111 online resource (297 p.)Gender and cultureDescription based upon print version of record.0-231-15263-9 0-231-15262-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART I: STEIN, FAŸ, AND THE MAKING OF A FRIENDSHIP -- 1. ENDINGS AND BEGINNINGS (1918-1930) -- 2. TRANSATLANTIC CROSSINGS, TRANSLATIONAL POLITICS (1930-1935) -- 3. MOVING RIGHTWARD (1935-1940) -- PART II: THE VICHY DILEMMA -- 4. STEIN'S WAR: "HAVING FAITH" IN PÉTAIN (1940-1944) -- 5. FAŸ'S WAR: WINNERS AND LOSERS (1940-1946) -- EPILOGUE -- 6. VICHY-SUR-LÉMAN -- NOTES -- INDEXIn 1941, the Jewish American writer and avant-garde icon Gertrude Stein embarked on one of the strangest intellectual projects of her life: translating for an American audience the speeches of Marshal Philippe Pétain, head of state for the collaborationist Vichy government. From 1941 to 1943, Stein translated thirty-two of Pétain's speeches, in which he outlined the Vichy policy barring Jews and other "foreign elements" from the public sphere while calling for France to reconcile with Nazi occupiers.Unlikely Collaboration pursues troubling questions: Why and under what circumstances would Stein undertake this project? The answers lie in Stein's link to the man at the core of this controversy: Bernard Faÿ, Stein's apparent Vichy protector. Faÿ was director of the Bibliothèque Nationale during the Vichy regime and overseer of the repression of French freemasons. He convinced Pétain to keep Stein undisturbed during the war and, in turn, encouraged her to translate Pétain for American audiences. Yet Faÿ's protection was not coercive. Stein described the thinker as her chief intellectual companion during her final years. Barbara Will outlines the formative powers of this relationship, noting possible affinities between Stein and Faÿ's political and aesthetic ideals, especially their reflection in Stein's writing from the late 1920s to the 1940s. Will treats their interaction as a case study of intellectual life during wartime France and an indication of America's place in the Vichy imagination. Her book forces a reconsideration of modernism and fascism, asking what led so many within the avant-garde toward fascist and collaborationist thought. Touching off a potential powder keg of critical dispute, Will replays a collaboration that proves essential to understanding fascism and the remaking of modern Europe.Gender and culture.Politics and literatureFranceHistory20th centuryFranceIntellectual life20th centuryElectronic books.Politics and literatureHistory818/.5209BWill Barbara1035075MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457778503321Unlikely collaboration2454579UNINA