Language:
French
Year of publication:
1989
Titel der Quelle:
L'Infini
Angaben zur Quelle:
27 (1989) 53-72
Keywords:
Drumont, Édouard,
;
Daudet, Léon,
;
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand,
;
Bernardini, Armand
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Jean-Paul Marat became the symbol of the terror of the French Revolution and of absolute evil in French right-wing antisemitic writings, beginning with those of Drumont (1886). Attributed with Jewish origins, Marat was presented as an incarnation of Jewish and Masonic conspiracy. In the 1930s and during the Nazi occupation, his figure emerged again as a demonic Jewish prototype in Céline's "Bagatelles pour un massacre" (1937) and in other right-wing works. With Armand Bernardini (1944), the stereotype of "the Jew Marat" gained anti-Bolshevik and racist components; Charlotte Corday, who assassinated him, was praised as a heroine of Christianity and of the Aryan race. On pp. 61-72, reprints excerpts from works by Drumont, Celine, L. Daudet, and Bernardini relating to the image of Marat.
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