Free Delivery Over $100
|
|
|||
|
||||
OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Léon WerthPublisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 16.00cm Weight: 0.567kg ISBN: 9780197602966ISBN 10: 0197602967 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 13 October 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Translator's Introduction Jean-Pierre Azéma's Introduction Lucien Febvre's Introduction Preface 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 Appendix IndexReviewsThere is much to be admired in Werth's Deposition. While the immediate context and description of a rural village at war is valuable in and of itself, Werth's musings on politics, the press, and human nature add a dimension that makes this more than a chronicle of shortages and daily life in a small town. Werth is both an observer and a participant in the history unfurling before him. He captures the ambiguity, ambivalence, and endless waiting associated with the war as it was happening. With the advantage of hindsight, scholars have written about the topics that Werth experienced and recorded in real time with the extraordinary talent of an ethnographer....David Ball's highly readable translation of this remarkable record is a welcome addition for scholars of the Vichy period and suitable for classroom use. --Shannon L. Fogg, H-France Review """There is much to be admired in Werth's Deposition. While the immediate context and description of a rural village at war is valuable in and of itself, Werth's musings on politics, the press, and human nature add a dimension that makes this more than a chronicle of shortages and daily life in a small town. Werth is both an observer and a participant in the history unfurling before him. He captures the ambiguity, ambivalence, and endless waiting associated with the war as it was happening. With the advantage of hindsight, scholars have written about the topics that Werth experienced and recorded in real time with the extraordinary talent of an ethnographer....David Ball's highly readable translation of this remarkable record is a welcome addition for scholars of the Vichy period and suitable for classroom use.""--Shannon L. Fogg, H-France Review" There is much to be admired in Werth's Deposition. While the immediate context and description of a rural village at war is valuable in and of itself, Werth's musings on politics, the press, and human nature add a dimension that makes this more than a chronicle of shortages and daily life in a small town. Werth is both an observer and a participant in the history unfurling before him. He captures the ambiguity, ambivalence, and endless waiting associated with the war as it was happening. With the advantage of hindsight, scholars have written about the topics that Werth experienced and recorded in real time with the extraordinary talent of an ethnographer....David Ball's highly readable translation of this remarkable record is a welcome addition for scholars of the Vichy period and suitable for classroom use. * Shannon L. Fogg, H-France Review * Author InformationLéon Werth (1878-1955) was a prominent French-Jewish writer, art critic, and close friend to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. A well-known commentator on French society during both World Wars, Werth spent the years of the Second World War in hiding from the Nazis, composing Déposition. David Ball is Professor Emeritus of French and Comparative Literature at Smith College. His translations include a Henri Michaux anthology that won the MLA's prize for literary translation, and Diary of the Dark Years, 1940-1944, winner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Nonfiction. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
||||
