Margaret Atack is Professor of French at the University of LeedsChristopher Lloyd is Professor of French at Durham University

...excellent volume...does not disappoint.

• TABLE OF CONTENTSACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION Margaret Atack & Christopher Lloyd PART I: CONSTRUCTING THE WAR IN NARRATIVE INTRODUCTION 1. Gisèle Sapiro: The role of literature in framing perceptions of reality: the example of the Second World War 2. William Cloonan: Representing the war: contemporary narratives of World War Two 3. Colin Nettelbeck: Getting at the truth: some issues of sources in the construction of an understanding of the Second World War and Occupation in France 4. Nathalie Aubert: La Main à plume: poetry under the Occupation 5. Thomas Newman: A reading of Genet’s adaptations from the Russian novel in his Occupation narratives 6. Peter Tame: Private and public spaces and places in Jonathan Littell’s Les Bienveillantes 7. Béatrice Damamme-Gilbert: Henry Bauchau’s Le Boulevard périphérique: The war story as clarification and investigation of the present PART II: REPRESENTATION AND RECEPTION INTRODUCTION 8. Richard J Golsan: Corruptions of memory: some reflections on history, representation and le devoir de mémoire in France today 9. Debra Kelly: Lived experience past/reading experience present: figures of memory in French life-writing narratives of the Occupation 10. Angela Kershaw: Fictions of testimony: Irène Némirovsky and Suite française 11. Virginie Sansico: Hoaxes and the memory of the Second World War: from Un Héros très discret to Misha Defonseca 12. Penny Brown: Framing the past: illustrating the Second World War in French children’s fiction 13. Angela O’Flaherty: The traumatised national community in Anna Langfus’s Les Bagages de sable 14. Luc Rasson: When the SS-man says I: on Robert Merle, Michel Rachline and Jonathan Littell PART III: TRAJECTORIES INTRODUCTION 15. Leah Hewitt: Distorted mirrors: Jewish identity in French post-war films on the Occupation 16. Hilary Footitt: The liberal way of war? French representations of the Allies 1944-200817. Danièle Sabbah: ‘Avoir vingt ans dans cette effroyable tourmente’ : Second World War Diaries in the Light of Hélène Berr’s Journal 18. David Uhrig: Maurice Blanchot’s Aminadab: a novel about collective memory under Vichy19. Katherine Cardin: Life as an ‘enfant de collabo’: Marie Chaix’s evolution 1974-2005 20. Alan Morris: ‘Un Passé qui ne passe pas’: Patrick Modiano’s Accident nocturne and Dans le café de la jeunesse perdue CONCLUSION NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS INDEX

Margaret Atack is Professor of French at the University of LeedsChristopher Lloyd is Professor of French at Durham University

...excellent volume...does not disappoint.

• TABLE OF CONTENTSACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION Margaret Atack & Christopher Lloyd PART I: CONSTRUCTING THE WAR IN NARRATIVE INTRODUCTION 1. Gisèle Sapiro: The role of literature in framing perceptions of reality: the example of the Second World War 2. William Cloonan: Representing the war: contemporary narratives of World War Two 3. Colin Nettelbeck: Getting at the truth: some issues of sources in the construction of an understanding of the Second World War and Occupation in France 4. Nathalie Aubert: La Main à plume: poetry under the Occupation 5. Thomas Newman: A reading of Genet’s adaptations from the Russian novel in his Occupation narratives 6. Peter Tame: Private and public spaces and places in Jonathan Littell’s Les Bienveillantes 7. Béatrice Damamme-Gilbert: Henry Bauchau’s Le Boulevard périphérique: The war story as clarification and investigation of the present PART II: REPRESENTATION AND RECEPTION INTRODUCTION 8. Richard J Golsan: Corruptions of memory: some reflections on history, representation and le devoir de mémoire in France today 9. Debra Kelly: Lived experience past/reading experience present: figures of memory in French life-writing narratives of the Occupation 10. Angela Kershaw: Fictions of testimony: Irène Némirovsky and Suite française 11. Virginie Sansico: Hoaxes and the memory of the Second World War: from Un Héros très discret to Misha Defonseca 12. Penny Brown: Framing the past: illustrating the Second World War in French children’s fiction 13. Angela O’Flaherty: The traumatised national community in Anna Langfus’s Les Bagages de sable 14. Luc Rasson: When the SS-man says I: on Robert Merle, Michel Rachline and Jonathan Littell PART III: TRAJECTORIES INTRODUCTION 15. Leah Hewitt: Distorted mirrors: Jewish identity in French post-war films on the Occupation 16. Hilary Footitt: The liberal way of war? French representations of the Allies 1944-200817. Danièle Sabbah: ‘Avoir vingt ans dans cette effroyable tourmente’ : Second World War Diaries in the Light of Hélène Berr’s Journal 18. David Uhrig: Maurice Blanchot’s Aminadab: a novel about collective memory under Vichy19. Katherine Cardin: Life as an ‘enfant de collabo’: Marie Chaix’s evolution 1974-2005 20. Alan Morris: ‘Un Passé qui ne passe pas’: Patrick Modiano’s Accident nocturne and Dans le café de la jeunesse perdue CONCLUSION NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS INDEX

Margaret Atack is Professor of French at the University of LeedsChristopher Lloyd is Professor of French at Durham University

...excellent volume...does not disappoint.

• TABLE OF CONTENTSACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION Margaret Atack & Christopher Lloyd PART I: CONSTRUCTING THE WAR IN NARRATIVE INTRODUCTION 1. Gisèle Sapiro: The role of literature in framing perceptions of reality: the example of the Second World War 2. William Cloonan: Representing the war: contemporary narratives of World War Two 3. Colin Nettelbeck: Getting at the truth: some issues of sources in the construction of an understanding of the Second World War and Occupation in France 4. Nathalie Aubert: La Main à plume: poetry under the Occupation 5. Thomas Newman: A reading of Genet’s adaptations from the Russian novel in his Occupation narratives 6. Peter Tame: Private and public spaces and places in Jonathan Littell’s Les Bienveillantes 7. Béatrice Damamme-Gilbert: Henry Bauchau’s Le Boulevard périphérique: The war story as clarification and investigation of the present PART II: REPRESENTATION AND RECEPTION INTRODUCTION 8. Richard J Golsan: Corruptions of memory: some reflections on history, representation and le devoir de mémoire in France today 9. Debra Kelly: Lived experience past/reading experience present: figures of memory in French life-writing narratives of the Occupation 10. Angela Kershaw: Fictions of testimony: Irène Némirovsky and Suite française 11. Virginie Sansico: Hoaxes and the memory of the Second World War: from Un Héros très discret to Misha Defonseca 12. Penny Brown: Framing the past: illustrating the Second World War in French children’s fiction 13. Angela O’Flaherty: The traumatised national community in Anna Langfus’s Les Bagages de sable 14. Luc Rasson: When the SS-man says I: on Robert Merle, Michel Rachline and Jonathan Littell PART III: TRAJECTORIES INTRODUCTION 15. Leah Hewitt: Distorted mirrors: Jewish identity in French post-war films on the Occupation 16. Hilary Footitt: The liberal way of war? French representations of the Allies 1944-200817. Danièle Sabbah: ‘Avoir vingt ans dans cette effroyable tourmente’ : Second World War Diaries in the Light of Hélène Berr’s Journal 18. David Uhrig: Maurice Blanchot’s Aminadab: a novel about collective memory under Vichy19. Katherine Cardin: Life as an ‘enfant de collabo’: Marie Chaix’s evolution 1974-2005 20. Alan Morris: ‘Un Passé qui ne passe pas’: Patrick Modiano’s Accident nocturne and Dans le café de la jeunesse perdue CONCLUSION NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS INDEX