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Contemporary French Culture and Society Ser.: French Tragedy : Scenes of Civil War, Summer 1944 by Tzvetan Todorov (1996, Library Binding)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherDartmouth College

ISBN-100874517478

ISBN-139780874517477

eBay Product ID (ePID)493205

Product Key Features

Number of Pages160 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameFrench Tragedy : Scenes of Civil War, Summer 1944

SubjectCultural Heritage, Military / World War II, Europe / Western, Europe / France

Publication Year1996

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaBiography & Autobiography, History

AuthorTzvetan Todorov

SeriesContemporary French Culture and Society Ser.

FormatLibrary Binding

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight12.8 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN96-011603

Dewey Edition20

TitleLeadingA

Dewey Decimal940.54/8144552

Original LanguageFrench

Edition DescriptionReprint,Revised edition

SynopsisAs 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.

LC Classification NumberD802.F82S21496813