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On the Human Race: Essays and Commentary
Robert Antelme
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Description for On the Human Race: Essays and Commentary
Paperback. Rescued in 1945 from Dachau - where he lay dying when Francois Mitterand recognized him among the thousands of quarantined prisoners - Robert Antelme set out to describe not only his experience but the humanity of his captors. The result was "The Human Race". Translator(s): Haight, Jeffrey. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 408.
Rescued in 1945 from Dachau - where he lay dying when Francois Mitterand, his onetime comrade in the resistance, recognized him among the thousands of quarantined prisoners - Robert Antelme set out to do what seemed unimaginable, to describe not only his experience but the humanity of his captors. The result, The Human Race, was called by George Perec the finest example in contemporary French writing of what literature can be. In this volume, the extraordinary nature and extent of Robert Antelme's accomplishment, and of the reverberations he set in motion in ... Read more
Rescued in 1945 from Dachau - where he lay dying when Francois Mitterand, his onetime comrade in the resistance, recognized him among the thousands of quarantined prisoners - Robert Antelme set out to do what seemed unimaginable, to describe not only his experience but the humanity of his captors. The result, The Human Race, was called by George Perec the finest example in contemporary French writing of what literature can be. In this volume, the extraordinary nature and extent of Robert Antelme's accomplishment, and of the reverberations he set in motion in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Marlboro Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Weight
407g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810160644
SKU
V9780810160644
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About Robert Antelme
Robert Antelme was 26 years old when, in 1943, he joined a French Resistance unit in Paris headed by FranHois Mitterand. Betrayed to the Gestapo a year later, Antelme was arrested and deported to Germany, where he worked in a forced-labor camp in Gandersheim until the Spring of 1945 when he was moved to Dachau. After Dachau was liberated by ... Read more
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