Traces of War : : Interpreting Ethics and Trauma in Twentieth-Century French Writing.

• Superior document: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures Series ; v.49
• Author: Davis, Colin.
• Place / Publishing House: Liverpool : : Liverpool University Press,, 2018.; ©2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (262 pages)

Traces of War examines how the trauma of the Second World War influenced the work of the brilliant generation of writers and intellectuals who lived through it.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Don't Mention the War -- Section A: Ethics, Trauma and Interpretation -- 1. Trauma and Ethics: Telling the Other's Story -- 2. Traumatic Hermeneutics: Reading and Overreading the Pain of Others -- Section B: Writing the War: Sartre, Beauvoir, Camus -- 3. Sartre and Beauvoir: A Very Gentle Occupation? -- 4. Camus's War: L'Etranger and Lettres à un ami allemand -- 5: Interpreting, Ethics and Witnessing in La Peste and La Chute -- Section C: Prisoners of War Give Philosophy Lessons -- 6. Life Stories: Ricoeur -- 7. Afterlives: Althusser and Levinas -- 8. Levinas the Novelist -- Section D: Surviving, Witnessing and Telling Tales -- 9. Testimony/Literature/Fiction: Jorge Semprun -- 10. Elie Wiesel: Witnessing, Telling and Knowing -- 11. Sarah Kofman and the Time Bomb of Memory -- Conclusion: Whose War, Which War? -- Bibliography -- Index.