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"'A masterpiece' Le Point 'A masterpiece' Der Spiegel 'A masterpiece' Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung"
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"The guillotine - and capital punishment and other diverse methods of dispensing death more generally - have been the abiding obsessions of my life. It began very early. I must have been no more than ten years old...' Born to a Jewish family in Paris, 1925, Lanzmann's first encounter with radicalism was as part of the Resistance during the Nazi occupation. He and his father were soldiers of the underground until the end of the war, smuggling arms and making raids on the German army. After the liberation of France, he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, making money as a student in surprising ways (by dressing as a priest and collecting donations, and stealing philosophy books from bookshops). It was in Paris however, that he met Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. It was a life-changing meeting. The young man began an affair with the older de Beauvoir that would last for seven years. He became the editor of Sartre's political-literary journal, Les Temps Modernes - a position which he holds to this day - and came to know the most important literary and philosophical figures of postwar France. And all this before he was thirty years old...Written in precise, rich prose of rare beauty, organized - like human recollection itself - in interconnected fragments that eschew conventional chronology, and describing in detail the making of his seminal film Shoah, The Patagonian Hare becomes a work of art, more significant, more ambitious than mere memoir. In it, Lanzmann has created a love song to life balanced by the eye of a true auteur."
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Thoroughly enjoyable read. Lanzmann dictated rather than wrote this book and it is telling in the fluency of the lovely prose,the interesting asides and the way that some of the stories are allowed, to the reader's benefit, to meander. It is like listening to the most fascinating and charming dinenr guest - one that you want to indulge just a bit more in order to feel the richness of their life.
The book is thought provoking on so many levels - growing up as a child in a Jewish family in france in the war, the search for the honesty of moments past which led to Shoah, plenty of humour. His life with de Beauvoir was so domestic on so many levels and extraordinary on others. The story of his sister Eveyn's life and suicide are deeply affecting and from the perspective of a brother who was both able to see the trajedy of a life of someone who loved deeply and had then to cope with perhaps the inevitable end.
Be prepared to have your eyes opened and to want to read more and to want to see Shoah ....
The book is thought provoking on so many levels - growing up as a child in a Jewish family in france in the war, the search for the honesty of moments past which led to Shoah, plenty of humour. His life with de Beauvoir was so domestic on so many levels and extraordinary on others. The story of his sister Eveyn's life and suicide are deeply affecting and from the perspective of a brother who was both able to see the trajedy of a life of someone who loved deeply and had then to cope with perhaps the inevitable end.
Be prepared to have your eyes opened and to want to read more and to want to see Shoah ....
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Patagonian Hare: A French Century
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The Patagonian Hare Claude Lanzmann
(Translator: Frank Wynne-Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Claude Lanzmann is in love with life and fascinated with death. A film director of the most influential documentary ever made, SHOAH, he knows what he is talking about when he "pleads in favor of life over death." In his book, a best seller throughout Europe, THE PATAGONIAN HARE he recounts the facts, the drama and the lyrics of his now, 87 years. The book was written in 2008. (It has been awaiting a good translator that has been found in Frank Wynne.) Lanzmann writes as a boy who was a student, an artist, a resistance fighter, a son, a Jew and as a man who is judgmental because he has seen and lived so very much. He has forgotten nothing.
Lanzmann is chief editor of LES TEMPS MODERNES, the very important magazine begun by Jean- Paul Sartre. He shared much of his life with Castor- Simone de Beauvoir, a co-founder. There is no index to THE PATAGONIAN HARE so if the reader is not sure of history's great and memorable figures -theatrical, literary, political, despicable-keep Wikipedia close by. Lanzmann knew everyone and loved many of them. His memories and the characters that embody them are monads flitting through and over the conscious years. Wars, putsches, murders, metempsychosis, love affairs, adventures- "everything was at once totally invented and absolutely true." Speaking of Frantz Fanon seemingly close to death, he says he was "the keeper of the truth, and of the truth as a secret. There was a secret in truth, and he held it." Lanzmann tells the secret in this memoir. On the tombstone of his mother's lover, the Serbian surrealist poet Monny de Boully, he quotes "Past, present, future, where have you gone..." They have gone into this roiling memoire.
The Patagonian Hare Claude Lanzmann
(Translator: Frank Wynne-Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Claude Lanzmann is in love with life and fascinated with death. A film director of the most influential documentary ever made, SHOAH, he knows what he is talking about when he "pleads in favor of life over death." In his book, a best seller throughout Europe, THE PATAGONIAN HARE he recounts the facts, the drama and the lyrics of his now, 87 years. The book was written in 2008. (It has been awaiting a good translator that has been found in Frank Wynne.) Lanzmann writes as a boy who was a student, an artist, a resistance fighter, a son, a Jew and as a man who is judgmental because he has seen and lived so very much. He has forgotten nothing.
Lanzmann is chief editor of LES TEMPS MODERNES, the very important magazine begun by Jean- Paul Sartre. He shared much of his life with Castor- Simone de Beauvoir, a co-founder. There is no index to THE PATAGONIAN HARE so if the reader is not sure of history's great and memorable figures -theatrical, literary, political, despicable-keep Wikipedia close by. Lanzmann knew everyone and loved many of them. His memories and the characters that embody them are monads flitting through and over the conscious years. Wars, putsches, murders, metempsychosis, love affairs, adventures- "everything was at once totally invented and absolutely true." Speaking of Frantz Fanon seemingly close to death, he says he was "the keeper of the truth, and of the truth as a secret. There was a secret in truth, and he held it." Lanzmann tells the secret in this memoir. On the tombstone of his mother's lover, the Serbian surrealist poet Monny de Boully, he quotes "Past, present, future, where have you gone..." They have gone into this roiling memoire.
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