Richard J. Golsan is university distinguished professor and director of the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University.

In The Vichy Past in France Today: Corruptions of Memory, Richard J. Golsan has made another significant contribution to our understanding on both sides of the Atlantic of France during the “Dark Years,”.... Whatever the future, Golsan has written a highly informative study combining literary and political history. The Vichy Past in France Today is not only a first-rate analysis of memories of the war years in France and the ways in which they are used for political and literary purposes, it also offers insights into the creation of what Marianne Hirsch has called “post-memory,” or the transmission of memory to succeeding generations.... Golsan has given us a magnificent study of the public sphere of politics and culture pertaining to the memories of the war years.

• Chapter 1: France’s Fractured Legal Vector of MemoryChapter 2: The Le Pen MomentChapter 3: Alain Badiou’s The Meaning of Sarkozy: “Transcendental Pétainism” and the Ossification of HistoryChapter 4: Remaking the Mode Rétro: Perversion and the “Pulping” of History in Jonathan Litell’s The Kindly OnesChapter 5: Revising History, Betraying Memory: Yannick Haenel’s Jan Karski and the Jan Karski Affair

Richard J. Golsan is university distinguished professor and director of the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University.

In The Vichy Past in France Today: Corruptions of Memory, Richard J. Golsan has made another significant contribution to our understanding on both sides of the Atlantic of France during the “Dark Years,”.... Whatever the future, Golsan has written a highly informative study combining literary and political history. The Vichy Past in France Today is not only a first-rate analysis of memories of the war years in France and the ways in which they are used for political and literary purposes, it also offers insights into the creation of what Marianne Hirsch has called “post-memory,” or the transmission of memory to succeeding generations.... Golsan has given us a magnificent study of the public sphere of politics and culture pertaining to the memories of the war years.

• Chapter 1: France’s Fractured Legal Vector of MemoryChapter 2: The Le Pen MomentChapter 3: Alain Badiou’s The Meaning of Sarkozy: “Transcendental Pétainism” and the Ossification of HistoryChapter 4: Remaking the Mode Rétro: Perversion and the “Pulping” of History in Jonathan Litell’s The Kindly OnesChapter 5: Revising History, Betraying Memory: Yannick Haenel’s Jan Karski and the Jan Karski Affair

Richard J. Golsan is university distinguished professor and director of the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University.

In The Vichy Past in France Today: Corruptions of Memory, Richard J. Golsan has made another significant contribution to our understanding on both sides of the Atlantic of France during the “Dark Years,”.... Whatever the future, Golsan has written a highly informative study combining literary and political history. The Vichy Past in France Today is not only a first-rate analysis of memories of the war years in France and the ways in which they are used for political and literary purposes, it also offers insights into the creation of what Marianne Hirsch has called “post-memory,” or the transmission of memory to succeeding generations.... Golsan has given us a magnificent study of the public sphere of politics and culture pertaining to the memories of the war years.

• Chapter 1: France’s Fractured Legal Vector of MemoryChapter 2: The Le Pen MomentChapter 3: Alain Badiou’s The Meaning of Sarkozy: “Transcendental Pétainism” and the Ossification of HistoryChapter 4: Remaking the Mode Rétro: Perversion and the “Pulping” of History in Jonathan Litell’s The Kindly OnesChapter 5: Revising History, Betraying Memory: Yannick Haenel’s Jan Karski and the Jan Karski Affair