Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-131) and index.
Contents
France's fractured legal vector of memory -- The Le Pen moment -- Alain Badiou's The meaning of Sarkozy: "transcendental Petainism" and the ossification of history -- Remaking the Mode Retro: perversion and the "pulping" of history in Joonathan Litell's The Kindly Ones -- Revising history, betraying memory: Yannick Haenel's Jan Karski and the Kan Karski affair.
Summary
This study examines the continuing impact of the memory of the Vichy regime and World War II in France. It analyzes recent political and intellectual debates, trials and the passage of contentious laws, historical controversies, and literary works and argues that the country has not yet reconciled with its past.
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