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    And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris
    And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris
    And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris
    Audiobook16 hours

    And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris

    Written by Alan Riding

    Narrated by Stephen Hoye

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    About this audiobook

    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. Alan 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). 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.

    Based on exhaustive research and extensive interviews, And the Show Went On sheds a clarifying light on a protean and problematic era in twentieth-century European cultural history.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateOct 27, 2010
    ISBN9781400188338
    And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris

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    • 3/5
      An interesting read. Many of us like to think that if "evil came to town" we would be the first ones to fight it off or join the resistance. This factual telling of the Nazi occupation of Paris gives a very real world view. What would you do? Would you join the resistance and face death? Would you do what you could to get by and forget for a few minutes that the world as you knew it three weeks ago is no longer your reality? Are you wiling to face death for your principles? Good questions to keep in mind as you read this one!