Genèse d’une réflexion sur les sensibilités collectives des années 60 au regard du succès du Dernier des Justes
On November 16th 1959, André Schwarz-Bart was awarded with the prestigious Prix Goncourt for his first book, The Last of the Just, which had only been published a couple months earlier. The epic novel, compared to Victor Hugo’s The Legend of the Ages, describes the wandering and the persecutions of...
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Institut des textes & manuscrits modernes (ITEM)
2021-04-01
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| Series: | Continents manuscrits |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/coma/6092 |
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| Summary: | On November 16th 1959, André Schwarz-Bart was awarded with the prestigious Prix Goncourt for his first book, The Last of the Just, which had only been published a couple months earlier. The epic novel, compared to Victor Hugo’s The Legend of the Ages, describes the wandering and the persecutions of successive generations of “Just” from the 12th century’s stakes to the 1943’s gas chambers. The novel was a bomb on the 1959’s media scene, and it led to numerous attacks against its author. Its publication, and the following events, crystallized ideological and identity debates that structured the “Glorious Thirty”, and that are still at work today. |
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| ISSN: | 2275-1742 |