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Reproductions of Banality was first published in 1986. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.An established fascist state has never existed in France, and after World War II there was a tendency to blame the Nazi Occupation for the presence of fascists within the country. Yet the memory of fascism within their ranks still haunts French intellectuals, and questions about a French version of fascist ideology have returned to the political forefront again and again in the years since the war. In Reproductions of Banality, Alice Yaegar Kaplan investigates the development of fascist ideology as it was manifested in the culture of prewar and Occupied France. Precisely because it existed only in a "gathering" or formative stage, and never achieved the power that brings with it a bureaucratic state apparatus, French fascism never lost its utopian, communal elements, or its consequent aesthetic appeal. Kaplan weighs this fascist aesthetic and its puzzling power of attraction by looking closely at its material remains: the narratives, slogans, newspapers, and film criticism produced by a group of writers who worked in Paris in the 1930s and early 1940s - their "most real moment."These writers include Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Lucien Rebatat, Robert Brasillach, and Maurice Bardeche, as well as two precursors of French fascism, Georges Sorel and the Italian futurist F.T. Marinetti, who made of the airplane an industrial carrier of sexual fantasies and a prime mover in the transit from futurism to fascism. Kaplan's work is grounded in the major Marxist and psychoanalytic theories of fascism and in concepts of banality and mechanical reproduction that draw upon Walter Benjamin. Emphasizing the role played by the new technologies of sight and sound, she is able to suggest the nature of the long-repressed cultural and political climate that produced French fascism, and to show-by implication - that the mass marketing of ideology in democratic states bears a family resemblance to the fascist mode of an earlier time.

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Français (langue) --- French philology --- French philology --- French teachers --- French teachers. --- Professeurs de français --- United States. --- Universities --- Étude et enseignement --- Study and teaching --- Study and teaching. --- Biographies. --- Teaching. --- Kaplan, Alice Yaeger. --- Kaplan, Alice. --- Kaplan, Alice Yaeger. --- Kaplan, Alice Yaeger. --- United States.

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Antisemitism --- Antisémitisme --- Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, --- Sources.

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French literature --- Mass society --- Littérature française --- Société de masse --- History and criticism --- Social aspects --- Histoire et critique --- Aspect social --- France --- Intellectual life --- Vie intellectuelle --- Littérature française --- Société de masse --- Mass society. --- Social life and customs --- Civilization --- Social aspects. --- Politique et littérature --- Idéologie et littérature --- 1945-1990 --- Civilisation

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Camus voulait exprimer dans La Peste (1947) les horreurs de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Mais, pour tous ceux qui ont découvert le roman à l'époque de la pandémie de Covid-19, cette allégorie a pris un tout autre sens, et d'autres aspects ont acquis une importance capitale : la sensibilité de Camus face à la maladie et à la séparation, son expérience d'un mal contagieux, la psychologie et la politique d'une ville en quarantaine. Écrit sous forme d'un dialogue, dans le temps suspendu d'un confinement mis à profit pour relire, analyser et retraduire La Peste, cet essai offre un passionnant aller-retour entre passé et présent, États-Unis, France et Algérie. Au-delà d'une analyse indispensable du roman de Camus, Alice Kaplan et Laura Marris nous rappellent les fonctions essentielles de la littérature : explication, consolation, transfiguration.

Epidemics in literature --- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020 --- -Camus, Albert, - 1913-1960. - Peste