French Writers' War, 1940-1953

The French Writers'' War, 1940–1953, is a remarkably thorough account of French writers and literary institutions from the beginning of the German Occupation through France''s passage of amnesty laws in the early 1950s. To understand how the Occupation affected French literary production as a whole, Gisèle Sapiro uses Pierre Bourdieu''s notion of the "literary field." Sapiro surveyed the career tr...