Libro Sleeping With the Enemy - Coco Chanel's Secret War de Vaughan Hal

Resena: In 1998, in The New Yorker, John Updike wrote, “All the evidence points to Chanel’s total indifference to the fate of her Jewish neighbors – or indeed to the lesser deprivation and humiliations suffered by the vast majority of Parisians.” At the age of 58, she was happy with her German lover and cared little for anything that occurred outside of her new perch at The Ritz. This book explores Chanel’s rise and success prior to WWII, how she closed her business during the war, and her relationships and affairs with Germans, Nazis, and Vichy. The author asserts that she not only had a German lover, but she helped with espionage. Yet after the war and her nearly decade-long sojourn in Switzerland, she returned to Paris in triumph. The author also explores whether Chanel leveraged the Nazi Aryanization (make companies Jew-free) rules in order to get rid of the Wertheimer’s control of Societe de Parfums Chanel (No. 5), so that she could gain full control. I found this to be an interested read and suspenseful, and it also makes you question if the wartime history of the founder affects the brand’s image over half a century later.
– Larry Mark, Amazon.Com Customer Review

Idioma: INGLÉS
Categoría: Lengua y Literatura, Narrativa

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