An important contribution to the voluminous literature on a dark period in French history." Choice "The first scholar to have had access to dossiers in the case, she presents stunning portraits of the accused, the prosecutor, the courtwhose members had themselves served the discredited collaborationist Vichy regimemembers of the jury, and the defense. "In this rare scholarly page-turner, Kaplan employs the skills of a biographer and literary critic to flesh out the life of Robert Brasillach, a prolific and controversial French critic who was executed for treason, at age 35, after France's liberation from the Nazis…Everyone in the courtroom comes to life here…Kaplan…brilliantly demonstrates how a trial, and the lives of individuals, can serve as a metaphor for the entire nation."- Publishers Weekly, starred review The questions posed by Kaplan are still disturbing and poignant today, for Brasillach was essentially executed for what we would now call 'hate speech.'"Lawrence Osborne, Salon But Brasillach's death was different was executed for intellectual rather than military or political crimes. "The James Dean of French fascism, as historian Alice Kaplan calls Robert Brasillach in her lucid and gripping new book, met a dismal fate that was shared by countless other collaborationists. " The Collaborator is one of the best-written, most absorbing pieces of literary history in years."≽avid A. Nominee for the 2000 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfictionįinalist for the 2000 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach by Alice Kaplan, excerpt
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