TY - BOOK AU - Guéhenno,Jean AU - Ball,David TI - Diary of the dark years, 1940-1944: collaboration, resistance, and daily life in occupied Paris SN - 9780199970919 AV - PQ2613.U187 Z46 2014eb U1 - 848/.91209 23 PY - 2014/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press, USA KW - Guéhenno, Jean, KW - Paris KW - Authors, French KW - 20th century KW - Diaries KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Personal narratives, French KW - Écrivains français KW - 20e siècle KW - Journaux intimes KW - HISTORY KW - Europe KW - France KW - bisacsh KW - Military KW - World War II KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY KW - Literary KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - European KW - French KW - fast KW - Besatzung KW - Militär KW - gnd KW - Andra världskriget 1939-1945 KW - sao KW - Paris (France) KW - History KW - 1940-1944 KW - German occupation, 1940-1945 KW - Histoire KW - 1940-1944 (Occupation allemande) KW - Frankrike KW - Diary KW - Autobiography KW - Personal Narrative KW - Electronic books KW - diaries KW - aat KW - Personal narratives KW - Autobiographies KW - lcgft KW - rvmgf KW - Récits personnels N1 - Originally published as Journal des années noires, 1940-1944 by Gallimard (Paris) in 1947, 1973, and 2002; Includes bibliographical references and index; Cover -- Diary of the Dark Years, 1940-1944: Collaboration, Resistance, and Daily Life in Occupied Paris -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the Text -- Translator's Introduction -- Preface -- 1940 -- 1941 -- NOTICE -- 1942 -- 1943 -- 1944 -- BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY -- Appendix: CHARLES DE GAULLE : "THE CALL OF JUNE 18" -- INDEX N2 - "Jean Guéhenno's Diary of the Dark Years, 1940-1945 is the most oft-quoted piece of testimony on life in occupied France. A sharply observed record of day-to-day life under Nazi rule in Paris and a bitter commentary on literary life in those years, it has also been called "a remarkable essay on courage and cowardice" (Caroline Moorehead, Wall Street Journal). Here, David Ball provides not only the first English-translation of this important historical document, but also the first ever annotated, corrected edition. Guéhenno was a well-known political and cultural critic, left-wing but not communist, and uncompromisingly anti-fascist. Unlike most French writers during the Occupation, he refused to pen a word for a publishing industry under Nazi control. He expressed his intellectual, moral, and emotional resistance in this diary: his shame at the Vichy government's collaboration with Nazi Germany, his contempt for its falsely patriotic reactionary ideology, his outrage at its anti-Semitism and its vilification of the Republic it had abolished, his horror at its increasingly savage repression and his disgust with his fellow intellectuals who kept on blithely writing about art and culture as if the Occupation did not exist - not to mention those who praised their new masters in prose and poetry. Also a teacher of French literature, he constantly observed the young people he taught, sometimes saddened by their conformism but always passionately trying to inspire them with the values of the French cultural tradition he loved. Guéhenno's diary often includes his own reflections on the great texts he is teaching, instilling them with special meaning in the context of the Occupation. Complete with meticulous notes and a biographical index, Ball's edition of Guéhenno's epic diary offers readers a deeper understanding not only of the diarist's cultural allusions, but also of the dramatic, historic events through which he lived"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=777471 ER -