German writers in French exile, 1933-1940 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mauthner, Martin.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:London ; Portland, OR : Vallentine Mitchell in association with the European Jewish Publication Society, 2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • "Weimar-on-Sea" : how Sanary becomes a writers' refuge
  • A "slander" on Richard Wagner : the torment of Thomas Mann
  • A French envoy drops a hint : Heinrich Mann the Francophile
  • Warning in Washington : Lion Feuchtwanger portrays life under the "hooked cross"
  • Émigrés as "deserters" : Klaus Mann's literary feud with Gottfried Benn
  • Cleansing the "literary brothels" : German students celebrate their "bibliocaust"
  • Rivalry in Ragusa : H.G. Wells treads the PEN tightrope
  • "Seppl" and the "slimy frog" : a Jewish publisher stays on in Berlin
  • "A reckless act"? : Klaus Mann launches his review
  • Watching and waiting : Thomas Mann prepares his "politicum"
  • "I have let my conscience speak" : Thomas Mann comes off the fence
  • "The curtain falls" : a Berlin publisher's odyssey
  • From bonds to Blitzkrieg : Leopold Schwarzschild bares Hitler's war plans
  • "We have just saved culture" : the Paris Writers' Congress of 1935
  • "I came, I saw, I shall write" : Feuchtwanger's misguided mission to Moscow
  • "Canaan-sur-Seine" : the strange end of the Pariser Tageblatt
  • "Secret Kaiser" and "Red Czar" : Heinrich Mann, Willi Munzenberg, and the Volksfront
  • Back from oblivion : postwar Germany's mixed feelings about its exile writers.