Emigr? New York: French Intellectuals in Wartime Manhattan, 1940-1944【電子書籍】[ Jeffrey Mehlman ]

＜p＞Wartime New York was the city where French Symbolism ー Maurice Maeterlinck ー came to live out its last productive years; where French surrealism ー Andr? Breton ー came to survive; and where French structuralism ー Claude L?vi-Strauss ー came to be born. From the largely forgotten prewar visit to the city of P?tain and Laval to the seizing, burning, and capsizing of the?Normandie, France’s floating museum, in the Hudson River, Jeffrey Mehlman evokes the writerly world of French Manhattan, its achievements and feuds, presenting a series of surprising and expertly etched portraits against the backdrop of an overriding irony: the United States, the world’s principal hope in the battle against Hitler’s barbarism, was for the most part more eager to deal with P?tain’s collaborationist regime than with what Secretary of State Cordell Hull called de Gaulle’s "so-called Free French" movement. ＜/p＞ ＜p＞“One of modern European history’s great stories. Jeffrey Mehlman tells the tale appealingly and．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る