Too Much Gide

Douglas Johnson

  • La Guerre des écrivains 1940-53 by Gisèle Sapiro
    Fayard, 807 pp, frs 220.00, September 1999, ISBN 2 213 60211 5
  • Correspondance: Marcel Arland-Jean Paulhan 1936-45 edited by Jean-Jacques Didier
    Gallimard, 397 pp, frs 140.00, March 2000, ISBN 2 07 075789 7
  • Dialogue des ‘vaincus’: Prison de Clairvaux, janvier-décembre 1950 by Lucien Rebatet and Pierre-Antoine Cousteau, edited by Robert Belot
    Berg, 285 pp, frs 120.00, March 2000, ISBN 2 911289 22 6
  • The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach by Alice Kaplan
    Chicago, 320 pp, £9.50, December 2000, ISBN 0 226 42415 4

The historians who have argued that the continuities of French history count for more than its ruptures and revolutions have tended to avoid examining the disastrous year of 1940, when the Third Republic came to a bad end and the German Occupation began. These four books suggest that even this cataclysm can be fitted into the pattern of continuity.

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