On February 6, 1945, Robert Brasillach used to be performed for treason by means of a French firing squad. He used to be a author of a few distinction—a prolific novelist and a prepared literary critic. He used to be additionally a committed anti-Semite, an acerbic opponent of French democracy, and editor in leader of the fascist weekly Je Suis Partout, in whose pages he usually revealed wartime denunciations of Jews and resistance activists.

Was Brasillach in reality responsible of treason? used to be he condemned for his denunciations of the resistance, or singled out as a suspected gay? was once it correct that he used to be completed whilst others, who have been at once answerable for the homicide of hundreds of thousands, have been let loose? Kaplan's meticulous reconstruction of Brasillach's lifestyles and trial skirts none of those moral subtleties: a detective tale, a cautionary story, and a meditation at the annoying workings of justice and reminiscence, The Collaborator will stand because the definitive account of Brasillach's crime and punishment.

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"A well-researched and vibrant account."—John Weightman, New York assessment of Books

"A gripping reconstruction of [Brasillach's] trial."—The New Yorker

"Readers of this stressful ebook may want to locate ethical touchstones in their personal. they are going to want them. this can be one of many few works on Nazism that forces us to event how advanced the location fairly used to be, and solutions will not come easily."—Daniel Blue, San Francisco Chronicle booklet Review

"The Collaborator is without doubt one of the best-written, such a lot soaking up items of literary heritage in years."—David A. Bell, New York instances publication Review

"Alice Kaplan's clear-headed examine of the case of Robert Brasillach in France has a great deal of current-day relevance. . . . Kaplan's high-quality e-book . . . indicates that the passage of time illuminates various understandings, and she or he leaves it to us to mirror on which realizing is better."—Richard Bernstein, The big apple Times