Story in Fiction and Film of French Collaboration in the Occupation and Complicity in the Holocaust (1940-1944)

Daniel R. Schwarz is the Frederic J. Whiton Professor of English Literature and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University, where he has taught since 1968. He is a renowned teacher, scholar, and public intellectual. He is the author of nineteen books including Reading Joyce’s Ulysses (St. Martin's Press, 1987), Reconfiguring Modernism: Explorations in the Relationship Between Modern Art and Modern Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 1997) and Imagining the Holocaust (St. Martin's Griffin, 2000).

• Books by Daniel R. SchwarzAcknowledgementsIntroduction: France Awakens from Historical Amnesia1 France Recognizes Its Active Role in the Holocaust2 Pompidou Centre Reckons with the Past3 French Nativism and Anti-Semitism4 National Amnesia5 Recent Anti-Semitism in France6 Dubuffet’s Scathing Anatomy of France7 Conclusion1 Remembering Occupied France, Vichy Collaboration, and France’s Role in the Holocaust1 The Historical Narrative2 The Holocaust in France3 Vichy Collaboration and Its Aftermath4 The Revisionist Post-War Narrative5 Holocaust Narratives: a Humanistic Approach with Moral Implications6 The Role of Narrative in Shaping History7 Taking Account of the Uncanny and Traumatic8 The Lessons of Camus’s The Plague9 Conclusion2 Visualizing the Inexpressible: the Documentary Tradition1 Introduction2 Cinematic Rendering of the Holocaust3 The Importance of Resnais’ Night and Fog (1955)4 Marcel Ophuls’ The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)5 Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah (1985)6 Conclusion3 Patrick Modiano’s Obsessive Imagination: Reconfiguring the German Occupation of France 1940–19441 Introduction2 Modiano’s Obsession and Repetition Compulsion3 Post-Memory in Modiano’s The Occupation Trilogy4 The Author in the Text5 Constructing Identity: Modiano’s Pedigree—A Memoir and the Search for His Past6 History and Place in Modiano’s The Occupation Trilogy7 La Place de l’étoile (1968): Conflating Time and Space in a Surrealistic Narrative8 The Night Watch (1969); Originally Published as Night Rounds9 Ring Roads (1974)10 Conclusion4 The Importance of W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz (2001) as a French Holocaust Text: Personal Trauma and Narrative Resistance1 Introduction2 Narrative Form in Austerlitz3 The Role of Photos4 Multi-Narrativity5 The German Occupation and the Holocaust in France: How Fiction Reshapes History6 Austerlitz in Paris7 The Significance of the New Bibliothèque Nationale8 Austerlitz’s Failed Intimacy and Trauma in Post-World War II France9 The Ending of Austerlitz10 Literary Monumentalism11 Conclusion5 How Cinema Responded to the Rise of Nazism and the Holocaust1 How the Film Industry Addressed the Rise of Nazism: The Great Dictator (1940), Casablanca (1943), and To Be or Not to Be (1942)2 The Great Dictator (1940)3 The Influence of Chaplin on French Holocaust Films4 Casablanca (1942)5 To Be or Not to Be (1942)6 The Contribution of American Films to Holocaust Narrative7 Jean Renoir’s This Land is Mine (1943)8 The Diary of Anne Frank (1959): Giving the Holocaust a Human Face9 Judgment at Nuremberg (1961): Revisiting History Through the Prism of Conscience10 The Pawnbroker (1964): the Trauma Paradigm11 Schindler’s List (1993): Spielberg’s Epic Imagination12 Conclusion6 The First Wave of Imaginative French Films on the German Occupation and the Holocaust1 Children of Paradise (1945): Filmmaking as an Act of Resistance2 The Influence of Children of Paradise on Truffaut’s The Last Metro3 Melville’s Army of Shadows (1969) and His Two Other Occupation Films, Le Silence de la Mer (1949) and Léon Morin, Priest (1961): Rendering the Occupation and Demystifying the Resistance4 Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers (1966)5 Conclusion7 Visualizing the Inexpressible (II): the Imaginative Tradition in French Occupation and Holocaust Films to 19801 The Imaginative Tradition in French Holocaust Films2 The Focus on French Collaboration3 The Two of Us (1967)4 Modiano and Malle’s Lacombe, Lucien (1975): the Path of Collaboration5 Joseph Losey’s Mr. Klein (1976)6 Conclusion8 Visualizing the Inexpressible (III): the Imaginative Tradition in French Occupation and Holocaust Films from 19801 François Truffaut’s The Last Metro (1980)2 Malle’s Au revoir, les enfants (1987)3 Paquet-Brenner’s Sarah’s Key (2009)4 Roselyne Bosch’s The Round Up (2010)5 Conclusion9 Polyphonic Narrative in “Un village français” (A French Village): Revisiting French History during the German Occupation1 The Importance of A French Village2 The Force of History: Themes in A French Village3 Rendering the Holocaust4 The Role of the Communists5 Eulogy for Agrarian Life6 Humanistic Values7 The Role of the Catholic Church8 Beginnings9 Chaos10 Episode 2.8: “The Choice” and the Choices Daniel Makes11 Narrative Strategies and Cinematic Techniques12 Narrative Resonance13 Post-modernist Aspects of A French Village14 Liberation15 ConclusionConclusion: “Who Will Tell [the] Story?” History as Fiction, Fiction as History1 The Power of NarrativeWorks Cited and Selected BibliographyIndex