03893nam 2200613 450 991078645730332120230607210154.00-19-997092-00-19-049584-70-19-997091-2(CKB)3710000000111310(OCoLC)882243136(CaPaEBR)ebrary10870813(SSID)ssj0001195307(PQKBManifestationID)12435223(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001195307(PQKBWorkID)11161584(PQKB)11714787(MiAaPQ)EBC1688436(Au-PeEL)EBL1688436(CaPaEBR)ebr10870813(CaONFJC)MIL605175(EXLCZ)99371000000011131020140520h20022014 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrDiary of the dark years, 1940-1944 collaboration, resistance, and daily life in occupied Paris /Jean Guéhenno ; translated and annotated by David BallNew York, New York :Oxford University Press,2002.©20141 online resource (337 p.) Includes index.1-306-73924-1 0-19-997086-6 "Jean Guéhenno's Diary of the Dark Years, 1940-1945 is the most oft-quoted piece of testimony on life in occupied France. A sharply observed record of day-to-day life under Nazi rule in Paris and a bitter commentary on literary life in those years, it has also been called "a remarkable essay on courage and cowardice" (Caroline Moorehead, Wall Street Journal). Here, David Ball provides not only the first English-translation of this important historical document, but also the first ever annotated, corrected edition. Guéhenno was a well-known political and cultural critic, left-wing but not communist, and uncompromisingly anti-fascist. Unlike most French writers during the Occupation, he refused to pen a word for a publishing industry under Nazi control. He expressed his intellectual, moral, and emotional resistance in this diary: his shame at the Vichy government's collaboration with Nazi Germany, his contempt for its falsely patriotic reactionary ideology, his outrage at its anti-Semitism and its vilification of the Republic it had abolished, his horror at its increasingly savage repression and his disgust with his fellow intellectuals who kept on blithely writing about art and culture as if the Occupation did not exist - not to mention those who praised their new masters in prose and poetry. Also a teacher of French literature, he constantly observed the young people he taught, sometimes saddened by their conformism but always passionately trying to inspire them with the values of the French cultural tradition he loved. Guéhenno's diary often includes his own reflections on the great texts he is teaching, instilling them with special meaning in the context of the Occupation. Complete with meticulous notes and a biographical index, Ball's edition of Guéhenno's epic diary offers readers a deeper understanding not only of the diarist's cultural allusions, but also of the dramatic, historic events through which he lived"--Provided by publisher.Authors, French20th centuryDiariesWorld War, 1939-1945Personal narratives, FrenchParis (France)History1940-1944FranceHistoryGerman occupation, 1940-1945Authors, FrenchWorld War, 1939-1945848/.91209HIS013000HIS027100bisacshGuéhenno Jean1890-1978,131819Ball DavidMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786457303321Diary of the dark years, 1940-19443852795UNINA