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"In The Writer's Crusade, author Tom Roston examines the connection between Vonnegut's life and Slaughterhouse-Five. Did Vonnegut suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder? Did Billy Pilgrim? Roston probes Vonnegut's work, his personal history, and discarded drafts of the novel, as well as original interviews with the writer's family, friends, scholars, psychologists, and other novelists including Karl Marlantes, Kevin Powers, and Tim O'Brien. The...
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Devenu le symbole de la Résistance française, Le Silence de la mer raconte le quotidien perturbé d'un oncle et de sa nièce qui voit leur maison réquisitionnée par un officier allemand. Épris de culture française, ce dernier doit faire face au mutisme de ses htes qui ont choisi d'exprimer leur patriotisme par cette voie. L'homme ne se décourage pas pour autant et, dès qu'il le peut, il se lance dans de longs monologues dans lesquels on découvre...
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Small Island is a delightfully entertaining and probing book about Jamaican immigration to Britain in the days after WWII. Andrea Levy's parents were part of this immigration movement and she is interested in investigating the perspective of these people. The Bookclub-in-a-Box discussion guide to this novel looks at Andrea Levy's exploration of the black and white issues of post-war London, which includes questions of class, race, and Empire. This...
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En 1942, alors que la répression se fait de plus en plus forte, Otto Frank, le père d'Anne, décide d'emmener sa famille et quelques proches se cacher dans une annexe de son entreprise dissimulée par une porte-bibliothèque pivotante. Durant deux ans, ils vivront dans la clandestinité et dans la peur d'être découverts par les SS. Bien décidée à raconter ce qu'elle vit, Anne rédige quotidiennement dans son journal intime, offrant ainsi un...
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Allied Encounters uniquely explores Anglo-American and Italian literary, cinematic, and military representations of World War II Italy in order to trace, critique, and move beyond the gendered paradigm of redemption that has conditioned understandings of the Allied–Italian encounter. The arrival of the Allies' global forces in an Italy torn by civil war brought together populations that had long mythologized one another, yet "liberation" did not...
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La Vague s'inspire d'une expérience réalisée par un jeune professeur, Ron Jones, sur ses élèves en 1967. Ce dernier, à travers un subtil travail d'endoctrinement, est parvenu à convaincre sa classe d'intégrer un mouvement totalitaire : la Troisième Vague. À travers son livre, Todd Strasser entend démontrer la fragilité de l'espèce humaine qui, lorsqu'elle suit aveuglément un leader, perd son esprit critique et toute notion de bien et...
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Elizabeth Bowen: A Literary Life reinvents Bowen as a public intellectual, propagandist, spy, cultural ambassador, journalist, and essayist as well as a writer of fiction. Patricia Laurence counters the popular image of Bowen as a mannered, reserved Anglo-Irish writer and presents her as a bold, independent woman who took risks and made her own rules in life and writing. This biography distinguishes itself from others in the depth of research into...
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Offers a fascinating window into how the fraught politics of apology in the East Asian region have been figured in anglophone literary fiction.
The Pacific War, 1941-1945, was fought across the world's largest ocean and left a lasting imprint on Anglophone literary history. However, studies of that imprint or of individual authors have focused on American literature without drawing connections to parallel traditions elsewhere. Beyond Hostile Islands...
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Discloses the richness of ideas and sheds light on the controversy that characterized the transition from fascism to democracy, examining authors, works and memories that were subsequently silenced by Cold War politics.
How a shared memory of Fascism and its cultural heritage took shape is still today the most disputed question of modern Italy, crossing the boundaries between academic and public discourse. “Against Redemption” concentrates on...
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In this original and engaging work, author Kent Puckett looks at how British filmmakers imagined, saw, and sought to represent its war during wartime through film. The Second World War posed unique representational challenges to Britain's filmmakers. Because of its logistical enormity, the unprecedented scope of its destruction, its conceptual status as total, and the way it affected everyday life through aerial bombing, blackouts, rationing, and...
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It has been said that during times of war, the Muses fall silent. However, anyone who has read the major figures of mid-twentieth-century literature-Samuel Beckett, Richard Hillary, Norman Mailer, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and others-can attest that it was through writing that people first tried to communicate and process the horrors that they saw during one of the darkest times in human history even as it broke out and raged on around them.
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