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2 days agoFrench author cleared of libel over Nazi 'collaborator' family novel
A Paris court ruled a historian not guilty of libel for calling her family 'collaborationist' during WWII in her autobiographical novel.
"People were writing poems," Patricia Lockwood tells us. Also: "People brought you cabbages." In her hands, events don't unfold in the usual way, with a beginning, middle, and end. Instead, we seem to come upon people and things doing what they always do, their actions and goings on both a matter of course and an incorrigible fact of their existence.