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Introduction: issues and perspectives; 1. Back to the future: Nabokov'sselection criteria for Oeuvre du XXe siecle; 2. Nabokov, Shostakovich, andthe View from the Bridge; 3. Articles of war: the Prague Manifesto and theProgressistes; 4. Creative freedom or political obligation? Serialism andStalinism in France; 5. Culture and confrontation at the Theatre desChamps-Elysees; 6. Neither you nor they: the avant-garde and neutralite; 7.Music and Sartrean commitment; 8. Rene Leibowitz and the musician'sconscience; 9. A forlorn hope: Sartre's 'virtual' audience; 10. Serialism,scientism, and the post-war world view; Epilogue: The aftermath of L'Oeuvredu XXe siecle.