ABSTRACT
Drieu La Rochelle was the most talented of the French writers who collaborated with the Germans during the Nazi Occupation of World War II. It was he who in those years continued publishing the famous Paris journal, La Nouvelle Revue Francaise. But the years and the decades go by, and in recent days the whole affair of ''literary collaboration'' has been reviewed and reconsidered, and Drieu La Rochelle has indeed become some thing of a ''cult object''. In the generation of the earlier World War Drieu was with Henri de Montherlant and Louis Aragon among the literary leaders of the socalled front veterans. Drieu was not the only French intellectual who did not simply ''go along with the victors'' but lost his way in a desperate search for ''larger forces''. There is an analysis of Drieu's quest in Paul Nizan's book about ''Fascist Socialism''. In the last analysis, readers may be turning again to Drieu as a prophet of disorientation.
