Author:
Kaplan, Alice Yaeger.
Edition Statement:Pbk. ed.
Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.
Descriptionxvi, 308 p. ; 23 cm.
Note:Originally published: 2000.
Note:The making of a Fascist writer -- Brasillach's war -- The liberation of Paris -- Jail -- Marcel Reboul: the government prosecutor -- Jacques Isorni: consel for the defense -- Missing persons: Brasillach's suburban jury -- Court -- The writers' petition -- No pardon -- Reactions -- After the trial -- Justice in hindsight -- The Brasillach myth.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:On February 6, 1945, Robert Brasillach was executed for treason by a French firing squad. He was a writer of some distinctiona prolific novelist and a keen literary critic. He was also a dedicated anti-Semite, an acerbic opponent of French democracy, and editor in chief of the fascist weekly Je Suis Partout, in whose pages he regularly printed wartime denunciations of Jews and resistance activists.Was Brasillach in fact guilty of treason? Was he condemned for his denunciations of the resistance, or singled out as a suspected homosexual? Was it right that he was executed when others, who were directly responsible for the murder of thousands, were set free? Kaplan's meticulous reconstruction of Brasillach's life and trial skirts none of these ethical subtleties, and will stand as the definitive account of Brasillach's crime and punishment. --Back cover.
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