Claude & Marcel / Janis Spehr
- Bib ID:
- 8626215
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Spehr, Janis, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
- Related Online Resources:
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at the National Library of Australia, State Library of South Australia
- Description:
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- Port Adelaide, South Australia : Ginninderra Press, [2022]
- ©2022
- 1 online resource (1 volume, unpaged)
- File Characteristics:
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- text file
- EPUB
- 465KB
- ISBN:
- 9781761092442
- Summary:
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Danger. Imprisonment. Death. This is the fate in store for anyone who dares defy the German authorities during their occupation on the island of Jersey during World War II. Undeterred, Lucy Schwob ('Claude') and Suzanne Malherbe ('Marcel') embark upon a campaign of rebellion. By day, the two women present to the world as quiet, cat-loving sisters; in reality they are lovers and saboteurs, using surrealist-inspired artworks to undermine and destabilise a tyrannous regime's power in an environment where no one is to be trusted. Captured in 1944 and faced with the threat of execution or deportation to a concentration camp, Lucy and Suzanne must draw on all their reserves of courage, imagination and tenacity, as well as their deep love, to survive separation, starvation and their own faltering will to live. Bowed but never broken completely, they greet freedom with ambivalence, knowing the price which has been paid for it by so many.--Back cover.
This story collection is based on actual events; however, it is a work of fiction and, apart from those characters clearly recognisable in history, no one depicted in the collection bears any relation to any human being, living or dead -- from theauthor's note.
- Full contents:
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- Joie: March 1937
- Courage: October 1940
- Resistantes: January 1941
- La Banniere: September 1943
- Masque: July 1944
- Captivate: 1944-1945
- Liberte: 1945
- Fantome: 1947
- Finale: December 1954.
- Notes:
- Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe, French resistance fighters and artists, are best remembered by their artistic names: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore.
- Subject:
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- Cahun, Claude, 1894-1954 -- Fiction
- Malherbe, Suzanne, 1892-1972 -- Fiction
- Australian fiction -- 21st century
- Short stories -- 21st century
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Jersey -- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Channel Islands -- Jersey -- Fiction
- Channel Islands -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction
- Jersey -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction
- Australian
- Genre/Form:
- Also Titled:
- Claude and Marcel
- Available From:
- PO Box 3461 Port Adelaide SA 5015
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary, dramatic or musical work
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2022
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