Traces of War : Interpreting Ethics and Trauma in Twentieth-Century French Writing.
Traces of War examines how the trauma of the Second World War influenced the work of the brilliant generation of writers and intellectuals who lived through it.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2018.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures Series
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| Online Access: | Click to View |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Don't Mention the War
- Section A: Ethics, Trauma and Interpretation
- 1. Trauma and Ethics: Telling the Other's Story
- 2. Traumatic Hermeneutics: Reading and Overreading the Pain of Others
- Section B: Writing the War: Sartre, Beauvoir, Camus
- 3. Sartre and Beauvoir: A Very Gentle Occupation?
- 4. Camus's War: L'Etranger and Lettres à un ami allemand
- 5: Interpreting, Ethics and Witnessing in La Peste and La Chute
- Section C: Prisoners of War Give Philosophy Lessons
- 6. Life Stories: Ricoeur
- 7. Afterlives: Althusser and Levinas
- 8. Levinas the Novelist
- Section D: Surviving, Witnessing and Telling Tales
- 9. Testimony/Literature/Fiction: Jorge Semprun
- 10. Elie Wiesel: Witnessing, Telling and Knowing
- 11. Sarah Kofman and the Time Bomb of Memory
- Conclusion: Whose War, Which War?
- Bibliography
- Index.