Language:
English
Year of publication:
1990
Titel der Quelle:
Review of Politics
Angaben zur Quelle:
52,3 (1990) 441-459
Keywords:
Drumont, Édouard,
;
Bernanos, Georges,
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Antisemitism Philosophy
Abstract:
Contends that although Georges Bernanos (1888-1948), the French novelist and political writer, is viewed as the archetypal antifascist Resistance writer his ideas are more in keeping with the French fascist writers of the 1930s-40s. Juxtaposes his views with those of his mentor Édouard Drumont, showing that they both advocated a militant, nationalist and populist Catholic anticapitalism which went hand in hand with antisemitism. Bernanos belonged for a time to the radical wing of the Action Française, and split from it in 1932 not, as has been thought, because he was disillusioned with fascism but because the fascist leaders were not radical enough and the movement had become bureaucratized and ineffective. He opposed the Vichy government (from his exile in Brazil, 1938-45) for the same reasons. Drumont's legacy and Bernanos' career suggest the complex relationship between Catholic, fascist, antisemitic, socialist, and "Resistance" impulses in France since the end of the 19th century.
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