Emigré New York

"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.

Year

2000

Language

English

Publisher

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Editions

1

Pages

216

ISBN

9780801862861

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