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PARTISAN REVIEW
January 21st.
The meditations of Michelet, Camus, and Lyotard on the decapitated
king and on monarchy, the political institution that dominated a thousand
years of French history, suggest that the execution of Louis XVI still occupies
a place in the French national memory, and that kingship and monarchy are
not archaic and irrelevant issues. It is too facile to scorn the afkctive mem–
ory of kingship in France. The personal encounters between these three
thinkers and the decapitated king concerning politics, violence, morality, and
even "ecriture" encourage us to reflect about January 21 st, the dark side of
July 14th.
Coming in
Partisan Review:
• Julia Kristeva on the French Revolution
• Helen Frankenthaler:
Thoughts Jrom an Occasional Journal
• William Phillips:
The Function oj Criticism Today
• A
B. Yehoshua:
The Israeli Novel
• Jean Bethke Elshtain:
Feminist Criticism
• Peter Loewenberg:
The Uses oj Anxiety
• Clancy Sigal:
Second Thoughts
• Nathan Glazer on Life in the Bronx
• Amitai Etzioni:
Liberals and Communitarians
• Anthony Kerrigan:
A Nicaraguan Story
• Herbert Gold:
A Blazing Inquest
• Jorge Edwards on Contemporary Chilean Writjng
