Traces of War : Interpreting Ethics and Trauma in Twentieth-Century French Writing.
By: Davis, Colin.
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BookSeries: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures Series: Publisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2018Copyright date: �2018Edition: 1st ed.Description: 1 online resource (262 pages).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781786948243.Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 840.900914 Online resources: Click to View | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Don't Mention the War -- Section A: Ethics, Trauma and Interpretation -- 1. Trauma and Ethics: Telling the Other's Story -- 2. Traumatic Hermeneutics: Reading and Overreading the Pain of Others -- Section B: Writing the War: Sartre, Beauvoir, Camus -- 3. Sartre and Beauvoir: A Very Gentle Occupation? -- 4. Camus's War: L'Etranger and Lettres �a un ami allemand -- 5: Interpreting, Ethics and Witnessing in La Peste and La Chute -- Section C: Prisoners of War Give Philosophy Lessons -- 6. Life Stories: Ricoeur -- 7. Afterlives: Althusser and Levinas -- 8. Levinas the Novelist -- Section D: Surviving, Witnessing and Telling Tales -- 9. Testimony/Literature/Fiction: Jorge Semprun -- 10. Elie Wiesel: Witnessing, Telling and Knowing -- 11. Sarah Kofman and the Time Bomb of Memory -- Conclusion: Whose War, Which War? -- Bibliography -- Index.
Traces of War examines how the trauma of the Second World War influenced the work of the brilliant generation of writers and intellectuals who lived through it.
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