LEADER 04402nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910457778503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-30068-0 010 $a9786613300683 010 $a0-231-52641-5 024 7 $a10.7312/will15262 035 $a(CKB)2550000000056104 035 $a(EBL)909380 035 $a(OCoLC)818856683 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000565222 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11354487 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000565222 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10528336 035 $a(PQKB)11112825 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000927223 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC909380 035 $a(DE-B1597)459440 035 $a(OCoLC)773692762 035 $a(OCoLC)979832062 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231526418 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL909380 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10502282 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL330068 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000056104 100 $a20110405d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aUnlikely collaboration$b[electronic resource] $eGertrude Stein, Bernard Fay?, and the Vichy dilemma /$fBarbara Will 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (297 p.) 225 1 $aGender and culture 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-15263-9 311 $a0-231-15262-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tList of Abbreviations -- $tList of Illustrations -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tPART I: STEIN, FA?, AND THE MAKING OF A FRIENDSHIP -- $t1. ENDINGS AND BEGINNINGS (1918-1930) -- $t2. TRANSATLANTIC CROSSINGS, TRANSLATIONAL POLITICS (1930-1935) -- $t3. MOVING RIGHTWARD (1935-1940) -- $tPART II: THE VICHY DILEMMA -- $t4. STEIN'S WAR: "HAVING FAITH" IN PÉTAIN (1940-1944) -- $t5. FA?'S WAR: WINNERS AND LOSERS (1940-1946) -- $tEPILOGUE -- $t6. VICHY-SUR-LÉMAN -- $tNOTES -- $tINDEX 330 $aIn 1941, the Jewish American writer and avant-garde icon Gertrude Stein embarked on one of the strangest intellectual projects of her life: translating for an American audience the speeches of Marshal Philippe Pétain, head of state for the collaborationist Vichy government. From 1941 to 1943, Stein translated thirty-two of Pétain's speeches, in which he outlined the Vichy policy barring Jews and other "foreign elements" from the public sphere while calling for France to reconcile with Nazi occupiers.Unlikely Collaboration pursues troubling questions: Why and under what circumstances would Stein undertake this project? The answers lie in Stein's link to the man at the core of this controversy: Bernard Fa˙, Stein's apparent Vichy protector. Fa˙ was director of the Bibliothčque Nationale during the Vichy regime and overseer of the repression of French freemasons. He convinced Pétain to keep Stein undisturbed during the war and, in turn, encouraged her to translate Pétain for American audiences. Yet Fa˙'s protection was not coercive. Stein described the thinker as her chief intellectual companion during her final years. Barbara Will outlines the formative powers of this relationship, noting possible affinities between Stein and Fa˙'s political and aesthetic ideals, especially their reflection in Stein's writing from the late 1920s to the 1940s. Will treats their interaction as a case study of intellectual life during wartime France and an indication of America's place in the Vichy imagination. Her book forces a reconsideration of modernism and fascism, asking what led so many within the avant-garde toward fascist and collaborationist thought. Touching off a potential powder keg of critical dispute, Will replays a collaboration that proves essential to understanding fascism and the remaking of modern Europe. 410 0$aGender and culture. 606 $aPolitics and literature$zFrance$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aFrance$xIntellectual life$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 676 $a818/.5209 676 $aB 700 $aWill$b Barbara$01035075 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457778503321 996 $aUnlikely collaboration$92454579 997 $aUNINA