The Collaborator (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Alice Kaplan
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Biography and history
- Time of Work: 1909-1945
- Setting: Primarily Paris, France
- Principal Characters: Robert Brasillach, Marcel Reboul, Jacques Isorni, Maurice Bardèche
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Biography
- Subjects: Intellectuals, France or French people, Twentieth century, 1940’s, World War II, Paris, 1910’s, 1920’s, 1930’s, Capital punishment, Trials, Treason, 1900’s
- Locales: Paris, France
Alice Kaplan is a professor of romance studies and literature at Duke University. She is the author of French Lessons: A Memoir (1993), a well-received memoir tracing her vocation as a student and teacher of French and, in particular, a scholar and historian of French literary fascism. The daughter of an American lawyer who took part in the Nuremberg war crimes trials of 1945-1946, Kaplan stumbled upon a file of documents and photos detailing the Holocaust when she was eight years old, in the aftermath of her father’s sudden death; as an adolescent, she discovered the French...
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