A French tragedy: scenes of civil war, summer 1944
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1. Verfasser: Todorov, Cvetan 1939-2017 (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Hanover [N.H.] Dartmouth College © 1996
Schriftenreihe:Contemporary French culture and society
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-138)
As Allied troops landed in Normandy in 1944, members of the local French Resistance in the small town of Saint-Amand-Montrond embarked on an ill-fated attempt to liberate their town. Based on noble but politically questionable motives, and failing to inspire broader support, the incident quickly devolved from confrontation to a stand-off and ultimately to a tragedy. Resistance forces took and subsequently executed hostages; their opponents, the milice - collaborationist French police - and German soldiers rounded up 70 Jewish adults and children in retaliation and put many to a horrible death. Eminent literary and cultural critic Tzvetan Todorov examines the episode as history but also as a moral paradigm
Finding similar failures on both sides, he also cites "a qualitative difference between the two, an irreducible asymmetry, which resides in their ideals, in totalitarianism versus democracy." Suspenseful, compelling, and uncompromisingly honest, A French Tragedy goes beyond the events themselves to ponder the nature of sacrifice, of suffering, and of individual responsibility in a world where civil war still thrives
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xx, 138 pages)
ISBN:0585247072
0874517478
1611681790
9780585247076
9780874517477
9781611681796

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