[Officier de hussards] : [photographie] / M. Abadie

Ancien possesseur : Sirot, Georges (1898-1977)

Moving beyond the rhetoric of provocation: the French and World War II in the novels of the Hussards (1949-1954)

In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, only those who had opposed the Germans or were perceived to have done so could freely express themselves. Soon, however, three young writers clearly leaning to the right of the political spectrum – Antoine Blondin, Roger Nimier and Jacques Laurent – dared to challenge their narratives in a series of provocative novels published between 1949 and 1954. Quickly referred to as the Hussards after the publication in 1952 of a famous essay by Bernard Frank, these writers momentarily occupied the literary space left vacant by their older peers. Without denying the provocative, political and subversive dimensions of the Hussards’ war novels, this article will argue that their success was mainly due to the fact that they were largely in line – and not in contradiction – with the ‘horizon of expectations’ of their time (Jauss, 1982).

Carte de la partie européenne de l'empire de Russie, avec l'indication des chemins de poste, ainsi que des douanes frontières et de la repartition actuelle en gouvernements et districts /

1 kartta kahdellatoista lehdellä :, käsinvär. ;, n. 136 x 158 cm, lehdet n. 34 x 52,5 cm

Lady Marling, arrivée de réfugiés de Russie à Southampton [22 mai 1920] : [photographie de presse] / [Agence Rol]

Référence bibliographique : Rol, 59428

Doctor [Harry] Grant promu Terek Cossack [i. e. cosaque honoraire du Terek en Russie] : [photographie de presse] / [Agence Rol]

Référence bibliographique : Rol, 59808