Writers' Block: The Paris Antifascist Congress of 1935

by Jacob Boas

Book Overview

In 1935, 230 writers from 38 countries converged on Paris to consider ways of countering the fascist threat to culture. Held against a background of a rapidly changing political climate, the five-day congress attended by some of Europe's foremost writers -- Andr Gide, Andr Malraux, Bertolt Brecht, Heinrich Mann, Ilya Ehrenburg, Aldous Huxley, among others -- ultimately collapsed in a bitter standoff between Soviet and Western conceptions of freedom...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781884501
• ISBN13: 9781781884508
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Legenda
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.7" x 9.6"