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Dialogues de 'vaincus'
Ce Dialogue, rédigé à la prison de Clairvaux par deux anciens collaborateurs, est resté à ce jour inédit. Les deux hommes rédigent une vingtaine de " dialogues " où ils s'expriment en totale liberté. Ils parlent de l'histoire de leur engagement, du nationalisme maurrassien au racisme hitlérien. Ils évoquent De Gaulle qu'ils haïssent, Staline qu'ils admirent. Ils passent en revue l'histoire de la littérature, invectivent Sartre, vomissent Genet, s'enthousiasment pour Marcel Aymé et Céline.
Ces dialogues nous invitent à regarder l'adhésion au nazisme de certains intellectuels français non pas comme un accident de parcours ou une parenthèse, mais comme l'accomplissement de ce qu'ils pensaient et continuaient à penser malgré la défaite de leur camp.
363 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 28, 2014
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Lucien Rebatet
23 books12 followersLucien Romain Rebatet is a French author and journalist. He began his writer career as a music and film critic for the far right newspaper "Action Française", before writing for the right-wing newspaper "Je suis partout", where he expressed his sympathy for National Socialism.
During World War II, Lucien Rebatet became a radio reporter for the Vichy Government and a journalist for "Cri du Peuple", and thus clearly collaborated. He wrote in 1942 a pamphlet entitled "Les Décombres" ("The Ruins") and begun writing "Les Deux Etendards" ("The Two Standards"), that he continued at Sigmaringen, where he had fled as well as Louis-Ferdinand Céline or the Vichy authorities. In 1945, Rebatet was arrested in Austria and sent back to France. There, he has been condemned to forced labor. He then finished "Les Deux Etendards" in jail in 1951, and was released from prison one year later. He returned to journalism in 1953, and his second novel, "Les Epis Mûrs" ("The Ripe Grains"), was published in 1954.
He also wrote in 1969 "An History of Music" which is his less polemical work, but contains nonetheless traces of his opinion.
In spite of his fascist ideas, Lucien Rebatet is sometimes considered to be an important author whose masterpiece is "Les Deux Etendards".
During World War II, Lucien Rebatet became a radio reporter for the Vichy Government and a journalist for "Cri du Peuple", and thus clearly collaborated. He wrote in 1942 a pamphlet entitled "Les Décombres" ("The Ruins") and begun writing "Les Deux Etendards" ("The Two Standards"), that he continued at Sigmaringen, where he had fled as well as Louis-Ferdinand Céline or the Vichy authorities. In 1945, Rebatet was arrested in Austria and sent back to France. There, he has been condemned to forced labor. He then finished "Les Deux Etendards" in jail in 1951, and was released from prison one year later. He returned to journalism in 1953, and his second novel, "Les Epis Mûrs" ("The Ripe Grains"), was published in 1954.
He also wrote in 1969 "An History of Music" which is his less polemical work, but contains nonetheless traces of his opinion.
In spite of his fascist ideas, Lucien Rebatet is sometimes considered to be an important author whose masterpiece is "Les Deux Etendards".
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