Suchergebnisse

Both the best narratives as well as the most competent literary historiography have gone down the path of complexity to understand the past on the basis of the present. The inevitable result is not only a multiplication of nuances but also the development of a basic conviction: that
the detailed knowledge of the careers and biographies of many novelists, poets, journalists or essayists is still insufficient given the proliferation of private materials (letters, diaries). A reading of these works in this new light makes historical revisionism a necessary means for the
democratic cleansing of contemporary society. Simplification or sectarianism, even in the treatment of exile, is the trade mark of left-wing and right-wing revisionism, obstinately misinformed but very popular. Combating it with a job well done is yet another debt owed by academic historiography.