/lit/ - Literature

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>Giono

Celine was already the biggest author in France before he became controversial
Drieu was known in social circles as a bit of a leftists (pre 1934) who academia embraced when he wrote Will of the Wips and most of his books are autobiographical in a sense
Giono was just a pacifist for the large majority of the period he was writing and its through those works that he gained enough notoriarity to not be fully forgotten if he didn't write anything else, the accusations of his collaborationism were wack and he was welcomed back into society even if there was never any real reason to exclude him in the first place besides nazi paranoia
Cocteau was a gay and a druggie man, who was also pretty popular before his "right-wing" face and the only crime he did was continue being an artist in nazi times and not really caring much about the war

Of those only Drieu is the only one with a situation even remotely similar to Rebatet, but Drieu was still a relatively famous author well liked by literary circles before his nazis faze so its harder to erase history

Rebate, was a child of collaborationism, that's was how he first gained prominance and the only thing he was known for before and after ww2, when he published Les Deux he was only a "nazi" who had narrowly escaped the death penalty so there was nothing for people to "forget" there was only something for the people to "ignore" and for academia to hide. Rebatet the novel writer doesn't exist in the french consciousness and is thus in danger of being forgotten by history, mostly because people refuse to acknowledge his writings due to him being a "child of collaborationism"