The Affair: The Case of Alfred DreyfusPlunkett Lake Press, 31 июл. 2019 г. Co-published by Plunkett Lake Press and George Braziller, Inc. On an autumn morning in 1894, Captain Dreyfus was summoned to appear for a routine inspection; instead, as he took down a letter dictated by a senior officer, he was summarily accused of high treason. So began a twelve-year series of events that included his imprisonment on Devil’s Island, the publication of Emile Zola’s passionateJ’Accuse, the Rennes retrial, and the pardon and final rehabilitation of 1906. As the Dreyfus case turned into the Affair, the history of a single military career came to display the conflicts that were tearing France apart: military defeat, anti-Semitic furor, and the place of traditional values in a country still reeling from the turbulence of the French Revolution. Told with an historian’s insight and a novelist’s skill, The Affairmakes fascinating and informative reading about one of the most celebrated episodes in modern history. “There have been many books about the Dreyfus Affair, but Jean-Denis Bredin's book is one of the best of them — lucid, well-organized, informed by a fine sense of drama.” — John Gross, The New York Times “[a] critically acclaimed study” — Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “If one is limited to a single book about the Dreyfus case and its consequences, this should be it. Bredin has told this story with precision, passion, and a vivid sense of character.” — The New York Review of Books “A brilliant and fascinating book. What is most remarkable about The Affair is the skill and sensitivity with which the author places it in its essential historical setting. It is also a gripping — though terrible — story superbly told.” — The Atlantic “This is the most judicious and absorbing account to date of the Dreyfus Case.” — The Boston Globe “This is certainly the best book on the Dreyfus case now available in the English language.” — San Francisco Examiner “Bredin is crystal clear in his gripping narrative of the complex case. His tapestry glows with all the color of the Belle Epoque and its extravagances.” — Chicago Sun-Times “There have been other books on the Affair, but I can’t imagine any of them coming even close to Bredin’s work. He is brilliant at placing the myriad elements of the Affair in context with verve and lucidity. It should be a model for future historians.” — San Francisco Chronicle |
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Help Me My Prince to My Rescue | |
ISpeak to You as from the Grave | |
Let Us Not Allow Ourselves to Be Devoured | |
They Would Not Have Done as Much for a Poor | |
Long Live Esterhazy | |
Part III | |
JAccuse | |
The Question Will Not Be Raised | |
This Jew Protected by Germany | |
Am Approaching the End of My Suffering | |
This Man Is the Traitor | |
The Affair Is Over | |
Part II | |
The Legend of a Confession | |
The Retirement of Mercier | |
Dont Do That Its Not Nice | |
A Fabulous Gambler | |
Dreyfus the Deportee | |
The First Jew to Rise on Behalf of the | |
The Petit Bleu | |
Was Terrified | |
An Idealist? | |
The Serenity of France | |
Keep the Two Affairs Separate | |
The Patriotic Forgery | |
Have a Closetful | |
My Dear Friend Just Listen to | |
Logicians of the Absolute | |
The Fury of France | |
Thou Shalt Not Follow the Multitude 3 4 5 | |
A Republican Majority | |
All This Is Going to End Badly | |
We Need a Lightning Bolt | |
Speranza 14 From Colonel to Lawyer Lawyer to Senator | |
Am Doomed They Are Abandoning | |
More Stupid than Cowardly More Cowardly than Stupid | |
To Roast the Jews | |
And So We Arrive at the Last Stage | |
Part IV | |
Bar Girls | |
To the Elysée General | |
Appealed and Annulled | |
Panama the First | |
Silence in the Ranks | |
To Rennes to Rennes Gentlemen of the Army | |
Living Mauled Flesh | |
The Final Battle | |
Yes the Accused Is Guilty | |
The Incident Is Over | |
Forgetting | |
A Moment in the Conscience of Humanity | |
On Punctured Drums | |
Marching in Step | |