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'Fascinating... a serious piece of scholarship, but one that reads like a novel.' Observer
In June 1940, Paris fell to the Nazis who made the world's cultural capital their favourite entertainment ground. Music halls and cabarets thrived during the occupation, providing plenty of work for actors, singers and musicians except for the Jews. The likes of Maurice Chevalier and Edith Piaf, who had entertained the French troops, now unabashedly provided amusement to the Germans.
After the invasion of France, those artists still in Paris had to find ways to survive. Although Matisse and others kept out of view, Picasso could not avoid Nazi visitors. A few, like Beckett, joined the Resistance. Some were arrested and died in German hands. Others entertained the enemy. The theatres reopened, the movie cameras rolled, galleries sold paintings looted from Jewish families, pro-German writers and their rivals fought in print. Told through the experiences of renowned creative figures and witnesses of the times, And the Show Went On is an authoritative account of how Paris's artistic world lived through the Occupation during which some suffered Nazi oppression while others prospered through collaboration.
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Alan Riding trained as an economist and lawyer before joining Reuters, the Financial Times and then The New York Times, reporting from Mexico, Brazil, Rome and finally Paris for twelve years as European Cultural Correspondent. His previous book Distant Neighbors: A Portrait of the Mexicans (Random House) has sold over 450,000 copies.
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And the Show Went On - Cultural Life in Nazi-occupied Paris
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U.K / Duckworth Overlook, 2012
ISBN 10: 071564310X
ISBN 13: 9780715643105
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Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. In the weeks after the Germans captured Paris, theaters, opera houses, and nightclubs reopened to occupiers and French citizens alike, and they remained open for the duration of the war. Riding introduces a pageant of twentieth-century artists who lived and worked under the Nazis and explores the decisions each made about whether to stay or flee, collaborate or resist. We see Maurice Chevalier and Edith Piaf singing before French and German audiences, Picasso painting and occasionally selling his work from his Left Bank apartment, and Marcel Carne and Henri-Georges Clouzot, among others, directing movies in Paris studios (more than two hundred were produced during this time). This focuses anew on whether artists and writers have a special duty to show moral leadership in moments of national trauma. We see that pro-Fascist writers such as Louis-Ferdinand Celine and Robert Brasillach flourished, but also that Camus's The Stranger was published and Sartre's play No Exit was first performed-ten days before the Normandy landings. / With B&W photos. /// This is a 1st edition paperback in near to fine condition-edges of the cover a little rubbed. (399 pages & 13 pages of introduction & 16 pages of photos). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 10910
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