Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Writers' Block: The Paris Antifascist Congress of 1935

Writers' Block: The Paris Antifascist Congress of 1935

Boas, Jacob

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral European HistoryGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1781884498
ISBN13: 9781781884492
Publisher: Legenda
Published: Dec 19 2016
Pages: 162
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

In 1935, 230 writers from 38 countries converged on Paris to consider ways of countering the fascist threat to culture. Held against a background of a rapidly changing political climate, the five-day congress attended by some of Europe's foremost writers -- André Gide, André Malraux, Bertolt Brecht, Heinrich Mann, Ilya Ehrenburg, Aldous Huxley, among others -- ultimately collapsed in a bitter standoff between Soviet and Western conceptions of freedom of expression, literature, and political engagement. Of all such congresses held in the 1930s, none better exemplified the interplay between history, politics, and literature. Writers' Block looks beneath the surface to expose the complex wiring that motivated participants. Clashing ideologies and personalities drive the narrative forward.

1 different editions

Also available

Also in

General Political Science

View All