Mnichovské trauma ve francouzské fikci
The Trauma of Munich in a Work of French Fiction

Summary/Abstract: Review: Benamou, Georges-Marc. Mnichovský přízrak. Prague and Litomyšl: Paseka, 2008, 242 pp. Trans. from the French by Zuzana Tomanová. This is a review of Le fantome de Munich: Roman (Paris: Flammarion, 2007) by the French journalist, novelist, and screen-writer Georges-Marc Benamou, which has recently been translated into Czech. The novel brings to life the actors and setting of the Munich conference of September 1938, by means of a fictional interview between an American journalist and the former French premier, Edouard Daladier, which takes place thirty years after the events. The reviewer considers the author’s aims unclear and his psychological portraits unconvincing and lopsided. According to the reviewer a more suitable fi gure for the leading role in such a work of historical fi ction would have been the Czechoslovak president, Edvard Beneš.

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