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Sto caricando le informazioni... A Question Of Loyalties (edizione 1989)di Allan Massie (Autore), Alan Taylor (Introduzione)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Recommended by Nicholas Shakespeare The Week 18Jan14. If anyone needs a virtuoso example of what fiction can do that history can’t, I would direct them to this novel. It renders Vichy France absolutely palpable in a way I have not read before: in all its abysmal compromises, hatreds, self-loathings, betrayals, silences. A compelling novel about the choices people make and the reverberations that they can send down the generations. In this case the narrator lives his life in the shadow of his father's "collaboration" with the Germans, and subsequent execution. As always, Massie'scharacterisation is sound, and he controls the narrative to ensure that he always retains the reader's interest. I am not sure that I would say that I enjoyed this book - it dealt with difficult and uncomfortable themes - but I think it was very good and I am glad that I read it. This is a very well written novel, exploring the nature of loyalty and collaboration and the difficult choices people have to make. No doubt many people in France had to make such choices in 1940 and it was never easy, but I did feel that the author, through his characters, was a little TOO soft on the adherents of the Vichy regime. I found the characters mostly rather unsympathetic. The attitude of so many French people at this time is vividly drawn and depressing - a mixture of fatalism at the impending German invasion and grudging respect for German success, plus an alarming level of anti-semitism among ordinary French people. This was certainly not an uplifting read, though very thought provoking. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Widely acclaimed as Massie's finest novel, A Question of Loyalties engages with all the complexities and ambiguities of loyalty, nationality and family as they are put under threat by betrayal, by errors of judgement, or simply friendship.Etienne de Balafré, half French, half English and raised in South Africa, returns to post-war France to unravel the tangled history of his own father. Was Lucien de Balafré a patriot who served his country as best he could in difficult times, or a treacherous collaborator in the Vichy government?Rife with the anguish of hindsight and the irony of circumstance, this powerful book brilliantly explores the ties between fathers and sons and the pains of love and duty in a period of European history that is still characterised by wilful denial and hatred. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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