Rupert Christiansen

Hall of mirrors

After the Nazi occupation of Paris was over, Sartre famously said — somewhat hypocritically, given his own slippery behaviour — that the only possibilities had been collaboration or resistance.

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

    Alan Riding

    Duckworth Overlook, pp. 399

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