Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma

by Barbara Will

Book Overview

In 1941, the Jewish American writer and avant-garde icon Gertrude Stein embarked on one of the strangest intellectual projects of her life: translating for an American audience the speeches of Marshal Philippe P tain, head of state for the collaborationist Vichy government. From 1941 to 1943, Stein translated thirty-two of P tain's speeches, in which he outlined the Vichy policy barring Jews and other "foreign elements" from the public sphere while...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231152639
• ISBN13: 9780231152631
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher