Abstract
The Norton Cru affair. Ten years after the end of the war, the French American academic Jean Norton Cru wrote a critical bibliography of French war literature, which included fundamental, factually based criticisms of two of the most successful and famous war memoirs, by Barbusse and Dorgelès. Its publication provoked a literary quarrel, in the course of which fundamental French attitudes towards the memory of the war became apparent.
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Palmer, J. (2018). After the War and the Norton Cru Quarrel. In: Memories from the Frontline. Palgrave Studies in Life Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78051-1_11
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