
And the Show Went On
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Alan Riding introduces us to a panoply of writers, painters, composers, actors and dancers who kept working throughout the occupation. Maurice Chevalier and Édith Piaf sang before French and German audiences. Pablo Picasso, whose art was officially banned, continued to paint in his Left Bank apartment. More than two hundred new French films were made, including Marcel Carné's classic, Les Enfants du paradis. Thousands of books were published by authors as different as the virulent anti-Semite Céline and the anti-Nazis Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre. Meanwhile, as Jewish performers and creators were being forced to flee or, as was Irène Némirovsky, deported to death camps, a small number of artists and intellectuals joined the resistance.
Throughout this penetrating and unsettling account, Riding keeps alive the quandaries facing many of these artists. Were they "saving” French culture by working? Were they betraying France if they performed before German soldiers or made movies with Nazi approval? Was it the intellectual's duty to take up arms against the occupier? Then, after Paris was liberated, what was deserving punishment for artists who had committed "intelligence with the enemy”?
By throwing light on this critical moment of twentieth-century European cultural history, And the Show Went On focuses anew on whether artists and writers have a special duty to show moral leadership in moments of national trauma.
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- Intro
- Other Books by This Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Map
- Preface
- Chapter 1 - Everyone on Stage
- Chapter 2 - Not So Droll
- Chapter 3 - Shall We Dance?
- Chapter 4 - L'Américain
- Chapter 5 - Paris by Night
- Chapter 6 - Resistance as an Idea
- Chapter 7 - Maréchal, Nous Voilà!
- Chapter 8 - Vivace Ma Non Troppo
- Chapter 9 - A Ripped Canvas
- Photo Insert
- Chapter 10 - Distraction on Screen
- Chapter 11 - Mirroring the Past
- Chapter 12 - Writing for the Enemy
- Chapter 13 - Chez Florence
- Chapter 14 - "On the Side of Life"
- Chapter 15 - The Pendulum Swings
- Chapter 16 - Vengeance and Amnesia
- Chapter 17 - Surviving at a Price
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography and Notes
- A Note About the Author
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