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Almost 120 years after the Dreyfus Affair, a fresh secret record has been unearthed - and it upends a lot of what we understood about the famous circumstance involving the French Jewish officer wrongfully accused of treason. As the record against Dreyfus shows - lately discovered by the French military and excerpted here for the very first time in British - the case against Dreyfus was shockingly more technical, regarding an affair between two armed forces attachés, some forgeries, and an insidious campaign that subtly blended homophobia and anti-Semitism to thwart justice and land an innocent man in jail. Digging into the secret record, Tablet Publication senior copy writer Liel Leibovitz offers a vivid new version of the seminal historical narrative, recasting the affair as a detective account set against the background of amazingly decadent Belle epoque Paris. And assisting to solve the offense here is an urgent sleuth: Marcel Proust, a fervent chronicler of the affair who, despite having never seen the trick allegations against Dreyfus, intuited them and incorporated them into his masterpiece of any book. Conspiracy of Letters is a brief and evocative account of history, books, prejudice, and the way they often form and inform each other. Liel Leibovitz is a senior copy writer for Tablet Publication and the author or co-author of five catalogs, including the upcoming A Broken Hallelujah: Stone, Redemption, and the life span of Leonard Cohen, which will be publicized by W.W. Norton in Apr of 2014.
