The New Resistance? French Intellectual Realignments after the Liberation

The Case of Armand Petitjean

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12914601
AutoresMartyn Cornick (University of Birmingham, autor correspondente)
Ano2015
Volume8
Fascículo3
Páginas201-213
Data de publicação2015-07-07
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of War and Culture Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1752-6272 • E-ISSN: 1752-6280
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1179/1752628015y.0000000014
OpenAlexW1554972898
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas14

The chaotic aftermath of the war in France conceals a complex range of intellectual positions, conditioned by the Épuration, a purge of those who had to one degree or another collaborated with the Nazi Occupier after July 1940, and well as the onset of the Cold War. Armand Petitjean, who had been one of the young hopes of the liberal cultural review, the Nouvelle Revue française (NRF), before the war, was one such writer to be purged in September 1944. Following the advice of Jean Paulhan, his former mentor at the NRF, he re-joined the army to help mitigate his case. However, embittered by his treatment at the hands of the communist-dominated Writers' Committee, the Comité National des Ecrivains (CNE), he, Paulhan, and others were rapidly mobilized in favour of the anti-communist cause, as the Cold War gathered momentum in 1947. This paper, using unpublished papers in the Petitjean archives — including book-publishing projects and unpublished correspondence with that guru of anti-communism, Arthur Koestler — will offer a case study on what was conceived as the ‘New Resistance’

Art history · Cold war · Communism · Nazism · Political science · Politics · Publishing · Resistance (ecology · Spanish Civil War · World War II · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Historical and Political Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law