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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. 1990 The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus, by Jean-Denis Bredin translated from the French by Jeffrey Mehlman (read 19 Mar 1986) (Book of the Year) Reading this has been a major event in my reading. It is by far the best, most complete, and most satisfying book I have read on that fantastic and fantastically interesting event: the Dreyfus Affair. It is very pro-Dreyfus. I am too, but that does not mean I can accept the anti-clerical aspects of the Dreyfusards. Of course, I deplore the attitude of some--probably most--Catholics to the Case at the time, but such certainly does not justify the assault made on religious liberty in France in the early 1900's. But this book is excellent. It is written by a lawyer, but the difference between the law I know and French law is so vast that some legal aspects of the case are simply astounding. But I have not read a more absorbing book in a long time. {The term "Book of the Year" was bestowed on this book at the end of 1986, when I adjudged it the best book I read in that year.] nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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It was the author Emile Zola, however, whose article, "J'Accuse", was the most memorable moment of the Dreyfus Affair and it sits at the center of Jean-Denis Bredin's detailed study entitled The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus. The article electrified France and reinvigorated the Dreyfusards, as the supporters of the innocence of Alfred Dreyfus were called. While both monumental and essential, coming as it did two days after the scandalous acquittal of Commandant Esterhazy, it was only a single moment among many important moments and details that are recounted in Bredin's comprehensive history. Even for readers living more than a century later who know the outcome of the Dreyfus Case, this book reads like a detective mystery with twist and turns, double-dealing, missing documents, forgeries and more. It contains the details from the earliest moments when Dreyfus is first identified as a suspected traitor due as much to his race as to anything else and certainly not because he ever had any dealings that were remotely traiterous since he was, ironically, a model soldier and a patriot.
Bredin's artistry lies in his ability to weave the many sometimes disparate details together in a narrative that maintains the reader's interest. This he does ably with a lucid style that betrays the underlying complexity of the actual events. Other commentators have noted the suspense and drama that the author is able to portray with this lucid style. I agree with them but also admire his choice to go beyond the details to share the meaning of the affair for the family, the participants, their nation and the world. The era he covered was the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the next. It was one that saw much turmoil in both national and international cultural history. The Dreyfus Case was an important part of that history as this book makes eminently clear. ( )