The Vichy Syndrome
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The Vichy Syndrome by Henry Rousso
From the Liberation purges to the Barbie trial, France has struggled with the memory of the Vichy experience: a memory of defeat, occupation, and repression. In this provocative study, Henry Rousso examines how this proud nation—a nation where reality and myth commingle to confound understanding—has dealt with les années noires. Specifically, he studies what the French have chosen to remember—and to conceal.
Rousso has set out to provide not just another narrative of les années noires—the years of defeat, occupation, of the phantom ‘French State’ and the civil war—but a study of the way the Vichy episode has been perceived and perverted by the French ever sinceThe result is a brilliant and intemperate book that is also a tract for the times. * The Economist *
Succeeds as a practical demonstration, for a particularly vivid case, of how to study a people grappling with a past. It is remarkable how few similar works there are… One understands a historian’s hesitation before the poorly documented and ill-defined wider popular memory as a subject. Rousso shows us, however, how dramatic and revealing this genre can be. -- Robert O. Paxton * New York Review of Books *
This is an original and thought-provoking work, a ‘must’ for anyone interested in the political and cultural psychology of post-war France. -- Nelly Wilson * Jewish Quarterly *
Succeeds as a practical demonstration, for a particularly vivid case, of how to study a people grappling with a past. It is remarkable how few similar works there are… One understands a historian’s hesitation before the poorly documented and ill-defined wider popular memory as a subject. Rousso shows us, however, how dramatic and revealing this genre can be. -- Robert O. Paxton * New York Review of Books *
This is an original and thought-provoking work, a ‘must’ for anyone interested in the political and cultural psychology of post-war France. -- Nelly Wilson * Jewish Quarterly *
Henry Rousso is a researcher at the Institut d’Histoire du Temps Présent (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Paris. Stanley Hoffmann (1928–2015) was Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780674935396 |
| ISBN 10 | 067493539X |
| Titel | The Vichy Syndrome |
| Autor | Henry Rousso |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Harvard University Press |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 1994-03-15 |
| Seitenanzahl | 400 |
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