Waubonsee Community College

And the show went on, cultural life in Nazi-occupied Paris, Alan Riding

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-378) and index

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And the show went on

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Alan Riding

cultural life in Nazi-occupied Paris

Throughout this penetrating and unsettling account, Riding keeps alive the quandaries facing many of these artists. Were they "saving" French culture by working? Were they betraying France if they performed before German soldiers or made movies with Nazi approval? Was it the intellectual's duty to take up arms against the occupier? Then, after Paris was liberated, what was deserving punishment for artists who had committed "intelligence with the enemy"? By throwing light on this critical moment of twentieth-century European cultural history, And the Show Went On focuses anew on whether artists and writers have a special duty to show moral leadership in moments of national trauma. -- Publisher Description