Description
The memoir of Charlotte Delbo, a French writer sent to Auschwitz for her resistance activities against the Nazi occupation of France and the Vichy government
"Delbo's exquisite and unflinching account of life and death under Nazi atrocity grows fiercer and richer with time."-Sara R. Horowitz, York University
Charlotte Delbo's moving memoir of life and death in Auschwitz and the postwar trauma of survivors, Auschwitz and After, is now a classic of Holocaust literature. Offering the rare perspective of a non-Jew, Delbo records moments of horror and of desperate efforts at mutual support, of the everyday deprivation and abuse experienced by everyone in the camps, and especially by children. Auschwitz and After conveys how a survivor must "carry the word" and continue to live after surviving one of the greatest catastrophes of the twentieth century.
This second edition includes an updated and expanded introduction by Holocaust scholar Lawrence L. Langer.
"No memoir of those times is more sensitive and less sentimental."-Geoffrey Hartman
"I find Rosette C. Lamont's remarkable translation of Charlotte Delbo's work perceptive, delicate, and poignant, in short: exceptional."-Elie Wiesel
"Delbo's exquisite and unflinching account of life and death under Nazi atrocity grows fiercer and richer with time. The superb new introduction by Lawrence L. Langer illuminates the subtlety and complexity of Delbo's meditation on memory, time, culpability, and survival, in the context of what Langer calls the 'afterdeath' of the Holocaust. Delbo's powerful trilogy belongs on every bookshelf."-Sara R. Horowitz, York University
Winner of the 1995 American Literary Translators Association Award
About the Author
Charlotte Delbo (1913-1985) was the author of numerous plays and essays. Rosette C. Lamont (1927-2012) was a professor of French and comparative literature at Queens College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York. Lawrence L. Langer is Professor of English emeritus at Simmons College in Boston.
Reviews
"I find Rosette C. Lamont's remarkable translation of Charlotte Delbo's work perceptive, delicate, and poignant-in short: exceptional."-Elie Wiesel
"For 75 years, Nazism's victims have told their affliction. This will carry on. Meanwhile, no other "Auschwitz" writer than Charlotte Delbo has so clearly shown human detail and human depth."-John Felstiner, author of Can Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems
"Delbo's exquisite and unflinching account of life and death under Nazi atrocity grows fiercer and richer with time. The superb new introduction by Lawrence L. Langer illuminates the subtlety and complexity of Delbo's meditation on memory, time, culpability, and survival, in the context of what Langer calls the 'afterdeath' of the Holocaust. Delbo's powerful trilogy belongs on every bookshelf."-Sara R. Horowitz, York University
Book Information
ISBN 9780300190779
Author Charlotte Delbo
Format Paperback
Page Count 392
Imprint Yale University Press
Publisher Yale University Press
Weight(grams) 408g
Dimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 25mm
"Delbo's exquisite and unflinching account of life and death under Nazi atrocity grows fiercer and richer with time."-Sara R. Horowitz, York University
Charlotte Delbo's moving memoir of life and death in Auschwitz and the postwar trauma of survivors, Auschwitz and After, is now a classic of Holocaust literature. Offering the rare perspective of a non-Jew, Delbo records moments of horror and of desperate efforts at mutual support, of the everyday deprivation and abuse experienced by everyone in the camps, and especially by children. Auschwitz and After conveys how a survivor must "carry the word" and continue to live after surviving one of the greatest catastrophes of the twentieth century.
This second edition includes an updated and expanded introduction by Holocaust scholar Lawrence L. Langer.
"No memoir of those times is more sensitive and less sentimental."-Geoffrey Hartman
"I find Rosette C. Lamont's remarkable translation of Charlotte Delbo's work perceptive, delicate, and poignant, in short: exceptional."-Elie Wiesel
"Delbo's exquisite and unflinching account of life and death under Nazi atrocity grows fiercer and richer with time. The superb new introduction by Lawrence L. Langer illuminates the subtlety and complexity of Delbo's meditation on memory, time, culpability, and survival, in the context of what Langer calls the 'afterdeath' of the Holocaust. Delbo's powerful trilogy belongs on every bookshelf."-Sara R. Horowitz, York University
Winner of the 1995 American Literary Translators Association Award
About the Author
Charlotte Delbo (1913-1985) was the author of numerous plays and essays. Rosette C. Lamont (1927-2012) was a professor of French and comparative literature at Queens College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York. Lawrence L. Langer is Professor of English emeritus at Simmons College in Boston.
Reviews
"I find Rosette C. Lamont's remarkable translation of Charlotte Delbo's work perceptive, delicate, and poignant-in short: exceptional."-Elie Wiesel
"For 75 years, Nazism's victims have told their affliction. This will carry on. Meanwhile, no other "Auschwitz" writer than Charlotte Delbo has so clearly shown human detail and human depth."-John Felstiner, author of Can Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems
"Delbo's exquisite and unflinching account of life and death under Nazi atrocity grows fiercer and richer with time. The superb new introduction by Lawrence L. Langer illuminates the subtlety and complexity of Delbo's meditation on memory, time, culpability, and survival, in the context of what Langer calls the 'afterdeath' of the Holocaust. Delbo's powerful trilogy belongs on every bookshelf."-Sara R. Horowitz, York University
Book Information
ISBN 9780300190779
Author Charlotte Delbo
Format Paperback
Page Count 392
Imprint Yale University Press
Publisher Yale University Press
Weight(grams) 408g
Dimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 25mm
