Emigré New York: French Intellectuals in Wartime Manhattan, 1940-1944

Wartime New York was the city where French Symbolism — Maurice Maeterlinck — came to live out its last productive years; where French surrealism — André Breton — came to survive; and where French structuralism — Claude Lévi-Strauss — came to be born. From the largely forgotten prewar visit to the city of Pétain and Laval to the seizing, burning, and capsizing of the Normandie, France’s floating museum, in the Hudson River, Jeffrey Mehlman evokes ...

By Jeffrey Mehlman
File Size: 1466 KB
Print Length: 216 pages
Publisher: Plunkett Lake Press (December 23, 2014)
Publication Date: December 23, 2014
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B00RDYVQ0O
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Fascinating book that really puts the meeting of structuralists, existentialists and surrealists in deep political context.

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