Dreyfus and the literature of the Third Republic : secularism and tolerance in Zola, Barrås, Lazare and Proust / Evlyn Gould.

Author: Gould, Evlyn.

Imprint:Jefferson, NC : McFarland & Company, c2012.

Descriptionvii, 244 p. ; 23 cm.

Note:Introduction: Turning around Dreyfus -- Turning points in European affairs: from Dreyfus to the headscarf incident -- Emile Zola: from happiness to truth -- Maurice Barrås: from ego to nation -- Bernard Lazare: from Israelite to Jew -- Marcel Proust: from assimilation to authenticity.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-237) and index.

Note:"Captain Alfred Dreyfus, French Jewish army officer, spent twelve years in solitary confinement for a crime he did not commit. Amidst the dramatic and shifting revelations of what would come to be known as the Dreyfus Affair, authors, Emile Zola, Maurice Barrès, Bernard Lazare, and Marcel Proust offered fictive articulations of response to questions posed by this abuse"--Provided by publisher.

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