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Society in Collapse
Clair, Louis | July 17, 1948 issue

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The article focuses on Jean Malaquais' book "World Without Visa." The author of the book has produced one of the few significant novels which should be read by all those who are concerned with the facts of the wasteland that was Europe. The locale is Vichy France; the novel is a diagnosis of the contemporary world, for which Vichy France serves as a symbol. Police officials who deal in foreign currency and exit visas, members of the Marshal's elite troops who for the first time can act out sadistic impulses in public, meek victims crushed by the racketeer state, consciously struggling resisters, and foreign political refugees, all the inhabitants of the Vichy world people this book.

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WORLD Without Visa (Book); MALAQUAIS, Jean; SOCIETIES; SOCIAL problems; LITERATURE & society; EUROPE
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