Foreword by Stanley Hoffmann Abbreviations Introduction: The Neurosis Part 1: EVOLUTION OF THE SYNDROME 1. Unfinished Mourning (1944-1954) 2. Repressions (1954-1971) 3. The Broken Mirror (1971-1974) 4. Obsession (after 1974): Jewish Memory 5. Obsession (after 1974): The World of Politics Part 2: TRANSMISSION OF THE SYNDROME 6. Vectors of Memory 7. Diffuse Memory Conclusion Appendix 1: Chronology of Events Appendix 2: French Films and World War II Bibliography Notes Acknowledgments Index
Henry Rousso is a researcher at the Institut d’Histoire du Temps Présent (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Paris. Stanley Hoffmann (1928–2015) was Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard University.
Rousso has set out to provide not just another narrative of les
années noires—the years of defeat, occupation, of the phantom
‘French State’ and the civil war—but a study of the way the Vichy
episode has been perceived and perverted by the French ever since.
The result is a brilliant and intemperate book that is also a tract
for the times.
*The Economist*
Succeeds as a practical demonstration, for a particularly vivid
case, of how to study a people grappling with a past. It is
remarkable how few similar works there are… One understands a
historian’s hesitation before the poorly documented and ill-defined
wider popular memory as a subject. Rousso shows us, however, how
dramatic and revealing this genre can be.
*New York Review of Books*
This is an original and thought-provoking work, a ‘must’ for anyone
interested in the political and cultural psychology of post-war
France.
*Jewish Quarterly*
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