Werth

Deposition 1940-1944

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Produktbeschreibung

This diary is one of the most precious--and readable--pieces of testimony about life in Vichy France under Nazi occupation. Werth was a Jewish writer who left Paris in June 1940 and hid out in a small village. We see how the Occupation affected life in the countryside and finally, the Paris insurrection of August 1944.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780190499549
• ISBN-10: 0190499540
• Artikelnr.: 51380446

Autorenporträt

Léon Werth (1878-1955) was a prominent French-Jewish writer, art critic, and close friend to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry . A prominent commentator on French society during both World Wars, Werth spent the years of the Second World War in hiding from the Nazis, composing Déposition. About the translator: David Ball is Professor Emeritus of French and Comparative Literature, Smith College. His translations include the Henri Michaux anthology, winner of the MLA's prize for literary translation, and Diary of the Dark Years, 1940-1944, winner of French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Nonfiction.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Translator's Introduction
Jean-Pierre Azéma's Introduction
Lucien Febvre's Introduction
Preface
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
Appendix