{"product_id":"unlikely-collaboration-gertrude-stein-bernard-fa-and-the-vichy-dilemma-gender-and-culture-series","title":"Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein  Bernard Fa  and the Vichy Dilemma (Gender and Culture Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1941  the Jewish American writer and avant-garde icon Gertrude Stein embarked on one of the strangest intellectual projects of her life: translating for an American audience the speeches of Marshal Philippe Ptain  head of state for the collaborationist Vichy government. From 1941 to 1943  Stein translated thirty-two of Ptains speeches  in which he outlined the Vichy policy barring Jews and other \"foreign elements\" from the public sphere while calling for France to reconcile with Nazi occupiers.  Unlikely Collaboration pursues troubling questions: Why and under what circumstances would Stein undertake this project? The answers lie in Steins link to the man at the core of this controversy: Bernard Fa  Steins apparent Vichy protector. Fa was director of the Bibliothque Nationale during the Vichy regime and overseer of the repression of French freemasons. He convinced Ptain to keep Stein undisturbed during the war and  in turn  encouraged her to translate Ptain for American audiences. Yet Fas protection was not coercive. Stein described the thinker as her chief intellectual companion during her final years.  Barbara Will outlines the formative powers of this relationship  noting possible affinities between Stein and Fas political and aesthetic ideals  especially their reflection in Steins writing from the late 1920s to the 1940s. Will treats their interaction as a case study of intellectual life during wartime France and an indication of Americas place in the Vichy imagination. Her book forces a reconsideration of modernism and fascism  asking what led so many within the avant-garde toward fascist and collaborationist thought. Touching off a potential powder keg of critical dispute  Will replays a collaboration that proves essential to understanding fascism and the remaking of modern Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44957668311093,"sku":"ByrdShop_0231152620","price":45.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780231152624.jpg?v=1770329495","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/unlikely-collaboration-gertrude-stein-bernard-fa-and-the-vichy-dilemma-gender-and-culture-series","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}