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The visitable past : a wartime memoir / Leon Edel.
LIBRA D811.E29 A3 2001
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edel, Leon, 1907-1997.
- Series:
- Biography monograph
- A biography monograph
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Edel, Leon, 1907-1997.
- Edel, Leon.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- United States. Army--Biography.
- United States.
- United States. Army.
- World War, 1939-1945--Psychological aspects.
- Psychological aspects.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives -- American.
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : Published for the Biographical Research Center by the University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- The Visitable Past: A Wartime Memoir is a fascinating account of the late Pulitzer-Prize-winning biographer's experience as a member of a psychological warfare unit during the liberation of France. Arriving in Normandy a month after D-Day, Edel was part of the De Gaulle force that entered Paris, the scene of his own student days during the late 1920s and early 1930s.
- In his Foreword, Edel describes his method as "trying to let one kind of story beget another; one moment of experience summon a series of past moments". The Visitable Past is therefore not only an account of France recovering from its years of occupation, but also a memoir of Edel's earlier Parisian days as a young man of letters. Wartime encounters with Sylvia Beach and Morton Fullerton lead to recollections of James Joyce, Edith Wharton, and Edel's own early work on Henry James.
- ISBN:
- 082482430X
- 0824824318
- OCLC:
- 45583506
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