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The Shameful Peace

How French Artists & Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation

By: Frederic Spotts

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The Shameful Peace

How French Artists & Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation

By: Frederic Spotts

The German occupation of France from 1940 to 1945 presented wrenching challenges for the nation's artists and intellectuals. Some were able to flee the country; those who remained—including Gide and Céline, Picasso and Matisse, Cortot and Messiaen, and Cocteau and Gabin—responded in various ways. This fascinating book is the first to provide a full account of how France's artistic leaders coped under the crushing German presence. Some became heroes, others villains; most were simply survivors. Filled with anecdotes about the artists, composers, writers, filmmakers, and actors who lived through the years of occupation, the book illuminates the disconcerting experience of life and work within a cultural prison. Frederic Spotts uncovers Hitler's plan to pacify the French through an active cultural life, and examines the unexpected vibrancy of opera, ballet, painting, theater, and film in both the Occupied and Vichy Zones. In view of the longer-term goal to supplant French with German culture, Spotts offers moving insight into the predicament of French artists as they fought to preserve their country's cultural and national identity.

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Yale University Press

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0300142374

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Cursed Legacy

The Tragic Life of Klaus Mann

By: Frederic Spotts

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Cursed Legacy

The Tragic Life of Klaus Mann

By: Frederic Spotts

Son of the famous Thomas Mann, homosexual, drug-addicted, and forced to flee from his fatherland, the gifted writer Klaus Mann’s comparatively short life was as artistically productive as it was devastatingly dislocated. Best-known today as the author of Mephisto, the literary enfant terrible of the Weimar era produced seven novels, a dozen plays, four biographies, and three autobiographies—among them the first works in Germany to tackle gay issues—amidst a prodigious artistic output. He was among the first to take up his pen against the Nazis, as a reward for which he was blacklisted and denounced as a dangerous half-Jew, his books burnt in public squares around Germany, and his citizenship revoked. Having served with the U.S. military in Italy, he was nevertheless undone by anti-Communist fanatics in Cold War-era America and Germany, dying in France (though not, as all other books contend, by his own hand) at age forty-two. Powerful, revealing, and compulsively readable, this first English-language biography of Klaus Mann charts the effects of reactionary politics on art and literature and tells the moving story of a supreme talent destroyed by personal circumstance and the seismic events of the twentieth century.

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Yale University Press

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0300220979

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The Shameful Peace

How French Artists & Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation

By: Frederic Spotts

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How French Artists & Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation

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Bayreuth

A History of the Wagner Festival

By: Frederic Spotts

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A History of the Wagner Festival

By: Frederic Spotts

Providing an overall account of the history of the Wagner festival, a critical analysis of its performers, productions, and enthusiasts establishes its remarkable beginnings, controversial associations, and surprising successes

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348

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Yale University Press

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0300066651

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Cursed Legacy

The Tragic Life of Klaus Mann

By: Frederic Spotts

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Cursed Legacy

The Tragic Life of Klaus Mann

By: Frederic Spotts

Son of the famous Thomas Mann, homosexual, drug-addicted, and forced to flee from his fatherland, the gifted writer Klaus Mann's comparatively short life was as artistically productive as it was devastatingly dislocated. Best-known today as the author of Mephisto, the literary enfant terrible of the Weimar era produced seven novels, a dozen plays, four biographies, and three autobiographies--among them the first works in Germany to tackle gay issues--amidst a prodigious artistic output. He was among the first to take up his pen against the Nazis, as a reward for which he was blacklisted and denounced as a dangerous half-Jew, his books burnt in public squares around Germany, and his citizenship revoked. Having served with the U.S. military in Italy, he was nevertheless undone by anti-Communist fanatics in Cold War-era America and Germany, dying in France (though not, as all other books contend, by his own hand) at age forty-two. Powerful, revealing, and compulsively readable, this first English-language biography of Klaus Mann charts the effects of reactionary politics on art and literature and tells the moving story of a supreme talent destroyed by personal circumstance and the seismic events of the twentieth century.

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Yale University Press

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0300218001

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9780300218008

Bayreuth

A History of the Wagner Festival

By: Frederic Spotts

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A History of the Wagner Festival

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Italy

A Difficult Democracy: A Survey of Italian Politics

By: Frederic Spotts,Theodor Wieser

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A Difficult Democracy: A Survey of Italian Politics

By: Frederic Spotts,Theodor Wieser

Italy is the world's sixth economic power, lies in a key geopolitical position, and was a founding member of NATO and the European Community. Yet of all the major European states Italy is the least understood and studied. This book provides the only up-to-date survey of the Italian political scene during the forty years since World War II. It describes the inner-dynamics of the political parties, the day-to-day functioning of the governing institutions, and the interaction of the country's economic, social, and political life. It shows how a political system, riven with difficulties and seemingly in a continual crisis, survives and prospers - in some ways more successfully than its purportedly better-governed neighbours. Based on the authors' first-hand observations of Italian politics, the book offers a valuable insight into a subtle and complex, but fascinating political world.

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352

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Cambridge University Press

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0521304512

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9780521304511

Letters of Leonard Woolf

By: Leonard Woolf,Frederic Spotts

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Letters of Leonard Woolf

By: Leonard Woolf,Frederic Spotts

600 letters written by the literary and political man reveal a wide range of interests as well as revealing his personality and life as well as those he addresses

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672

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Harvest Books

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0156508796

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