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This book analyses the successive appearances of Adolf Hitler in French fiction between 1945 and 2017. It discusses why, unlike what has been observed in the US and in the UK, it has proven problematic for French novelists to write about Hitler in their numerous fictional explorations of the Second World War. It examines the literary and ethical challenges of including historical characters such as Hitler in fiction, and demonstrates how these challenges evolved over time as memories of the Second World War also evolved in France.
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Manuel Bragança is Assistant Professor in French Studies at University College Dublin, Ireland, where he is also a member of the Centre for War Studies and of the Humanities Institute. His research interests focus on the historiography and memories of the Second World War in France and Europe.
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Book Title: Hitler’s French Literary Afterlives, 1945-2017
Authors: Manuel Bragança
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21617-7
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-21616-0Published: 23 September 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-21617-7Published: 11 September 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 130
Topics: History of World War II and the Holocaust, Memory Studies, History of France, History of Modern Europe, Literary History