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- University of Hawai'I Press
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- Copyright © Biographical Research Center
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- 0162-4962
- eISSN
- 1529-1456
Abstract
nouvelle biographie , pulp nonfiction , and tionalna crisis the year in france joanny moulin By a stroke of fate, the summer of 2017 has seen the demise of two famous French biographers, Max Gallo (1931–2017) and Gonzague Saint Bris (1948– 2017). Although they came from radically different social backgrounds, they both stood for a certain idea of biography as a popular literary genre charac- terized by conservative tendencies and a kitsch style of pop history. Max Gallo was the son of working-class Italian immigrants who had found in Nice, in southeast France, a shelter against Mussolini’s fascism be- fore his father took an active part in the French resistance. Having left school at the age of eleven to earn a living as a factory worker, then as a radio tech- nician, Max went on educating himself as an autodidact. At the time of the Algerian War, in 1956, he was already leaving the Communist Party, and the next year he passed the agrégation to become a professor of history at Lycée Masséna. Then in 1968 he defended a PhD dissertation on Italian fascist pro - paganda that opened for him the door to a brief academic career as
Journal
Biography – University of Hawai'I Press
Published: Mar 8, 2018