Emigré New York
French Intellectuals in Wartime Manhattan, 1940-1944
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Word Count
54,000 words, Guess
Page Count
216 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7870539M
- ISBN-139780801862861
- ISBN-100801862868
- OCLC Control Number42290453
- OCLC Control Numberemigrnewyork00jeff
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number99044901
- Goodreads2112941
- LibraryThing2737618
Classifications
- LCCDC33.7 .M44 2000
Description
"Wartime New York was the city where French Symbolism, in the person of Maurice Maeterlinck, came to live out its last productive years; where French surrealism, in the person of Andre Breton, came to survive; and where French structuralism, in the person of Claude Levi-Strauss, came to be born. From the largely forgotten prewar visit to the city of Petain 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, during one of the most vexed periods in French history."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
They were the oddest of political couples, Petain and Laval: deeply distrustful of each other, each plotting to rid himself of the other, but condemned by circumstance to spend the darkest years of French history, the Nazi occupation, in barely interrupted tandem.
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