The Forests of the Night by Jean-Louis Curtis 1951 HC/DJ 2nd Impression; Good

Description: The Forests of the Night by Jean-Louis Curtis 1951 HC/DJ 2nd Impression; Good Condition The dust jacket has some scuffing, shelf-wear, rubbing, chipping, light soiling, and small corner tears. The binding is tight and secure, though the spine is rounded. The boards have some fading and light soiling but the imprints and images are all clearly visible. Please see photos. The pages are clean but have light yellowing throughout. Translated from the French by Nora Wydenbruck. The Forests of the Night (1947; French: Les Forêts de la nuit) is the second novel by French author Jean-Louis Curtis. His best-selling novel, it is also considered his best,[1] winning the 1947 Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary prize.[1] Set in Curtis's native region of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, the novel is the story of a village under Nazi occupation, centering on the fortunes of French resistors and collaborators. The novel's historical context is that during the years immediately after the war, a myth in France arose that most Frenchmen had been resistors to the Nazi occupation, fighters who took up arms or committed acts of civil disobedience and noncooperation. They were opposed by a few collaborators, or bad apples, who supported the occupation.[2][3] The mythology of a nation of resistors would be seriously discredited and revised in the early 1970s through the work of historian Robert Paxton,[2][3] but Jean-Louis Curtis's 1947 novel was one of the first to raise some doubts,[2] to expose cracks in the lie, thus winning it the attention of France's literary establishment and earning it the Prix Goncourt. The Forests of the Night was the first post-war novel to portray France during the war as it really was,[1] as James Kirkup observed, an "acid portrait of those who played at being members of the [French] Resistance".[4]The novel's theme and title come from the opening lines to William Blake's poem "The Tyger": "Tiger, tiger, burning bright - in the forests of the night."The Forests of the Night was translated by Nora Wydenbruck [de] into English in 1951; it has not been re-printed since.

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