| Titre | 1815 EN 1945 : LES FORMES LITTÉRAIRES DE LA DÉFAITE | |
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| Auteur | Anne Simonin | |
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Revue |
20 & 21. Revue d'histoire Titre à cette date : Vingtième siècle, revue d'histoire |
| Numéro | no 59, juillet-septembre 1998 | |
| Page | 48-61 | |
| Résumé anglais | 1815-1945: Literary Forms of Defeat, Anne Simonin. In 1945, the partisans of the Vichy regime and of a collaboration policy with Nazi Germany suffered a radical military and ideological defeat. This situation made writers, compromised in various degrees with the occupier, adopt an original literary strategy. They would mobilize the history of France — in particular the Restoration and 1814 and 1815 - in an attempt to impose a historical interpretation of the present and deny the radical change produced by the events that occurred between 1940 and 1945. If it were possible to compare 1945 and 1815, it would mean that there were no traitors ; that the purge was only a vicissitude of the White Terror ; that today's collaborators are yesterday's outlaws, in other words they are the temporary losers. On the left, Aragon understood, uncovered and fought this historico-literary operation, the base of a culture of bad faith to which some intellectuals on the right chose to attach themselves. | |
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