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a whiff of tragedy and futility,
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This review is from: Popular Front Paris and the Poetics of Culture (Hardcover)
This Paris of the 1930s is not that of the Belle Epoque. But it lives on in memory, as perhaps a romanticised and tragic calm, before the onslaught of World War 2. Well, Andrew and Ungar take us back to those days. Richly covering the cultural and political events. With the benefit of hindsight, today's reader might catch more than a little whiff of Weimar Germany.
The political events, both at the national French level, and, more strongly, the international developments, act as framework of the narrative. But the book focuses on the intellectuals, writers and artists. For it is their tale. There is vitality and diversity of opinions that is so free, and different from the dictatorial abyss that is now in the German cities, just a short distance away. A sense of tragedy seeps through the book. When these philosophers were debating such issues as the definition of culture, or the usefulness of the intellectual class, it all seems so futile and irrelevant to the future fast approaching France. |
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Popular Front Paris and the Poetics of Culture by Dudley Andrew (Paperback - March 31, 2008)
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