Charlotte Delbo : A Life Reclaimed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dunant, Ghislaine.

Contributor:

Lachman, Kathryn M.

Lachman, Kathryn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Delbo, Charlotte.

Auschwitz (Concentration camp).

Authors, French--20th century--Biography.

Authors, French.

Political prisoners--France--Biography.

Political prisoners.

Political prisoners--Poland--Biography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (494 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2021.

Summary:

"In 1943, Charlotte Delbo and 229 other women were deported to a station with no name, which they later learned was Auschwitz. Arrested for resisting the Nazi occupation of Paris, Delbo was sent to the camps, enduring both Auschwitz and Ravensbrück for twenty-seven months. She sustained herself by reciting Molière and resolved to someday write a book about herself and her fellow deportees, a stunning work called None of Us Will Return. After the camps, Delbo devoted her life to the art of writing and the duty of witnessing, fiercely advocating for the power of the arts to testify against despotism and tyranny. Ghislaine Dunant's unforgettable biography of Delbo, La vie retrouvée (2016), captivated French readers and was awarded the Prix Femina. Now translated into English for the first time, Charlotte Delbo: A Life Reclaimed depicts Delbo's lifelong battles as a working-class woman, as a survivor, as a leftist who broke from the Communist Party, and most of all, as a writer whose words compelled others to see"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Translator's Introduction

1. In Search of Charlotte Delbo

2. 1939-1942: Early War Years

Work with Louis Jouvet

Cahiers De La Jeunesse

Marriage to Georges Dudach

Tours of Switzerland and South America

Resistance and Arrest

3. July 1945-January 1946: Repatriation

None of Us Will Return

4. 1946: Convalescence in Switzerland

Short Stories

Rupture with Jouvet

Employment at the United Nations in Geneva

5. 1948: Spectres, Mes Compagnons

First Trip to Greece

6. 1949-1951: A Scene Played on the Stage of Memory

Overseas Work for the United Nations

Love Affair with Serge Samarine

The Autobiographical Text "February"

7. 1959-1961: Journey to the Soviet Union

a Metro Named Lenin

Return to France

Employment at the National Center for Scientific Research

Opposition to the Algerian War

Publication of Les Belles Lettres

First Attempts to Publish None of Us Will Return

8. 1961-1965: First Trip to the United States

Publication of None of Us Will Return

Work with Henri Lefebvre

9. 1964-1967: Convoy to Auschwitz

10. 1966: Who Will Carry the Word? And Those Who Had Chosen

Early Chapters of Useless Knowledge

11. 1969: "The Final Night"

12. 1969: "At First, We Wanted to Sing" and "The Mis an Thrope"

13. 1968-1970: Plays on May 1968, Prague, and Chile

Encounter with Rosette Lamont

14. 1970-1971: First Chapters of the Measure of Our Days

French Publication of the Trilogy Auschwitz and After

American Publication of "phantoms, My Companions"

15. 1970-1971: The Measure of Our Days

16. 1970-1979: The Court Sentence, Et Toi, Comment As-Tu Fait?, and Le Coup D'état

Political Editorials

"to a Judith"

17. 1973: Stories of the Station Through Which the Train No Longer Passes.

Publication of "gaby's Dog"

18. 1973-1974: Spectres, Mes Compagnons

19. 1974-1977: Publication and Reception of Spectres, Mes Compagnons

20. 1974-1980: Paris Production of Who Will Carry the Word?

Collaborations with Charles Schumacher and Charles Belmont

Maria Lusitania and Kalvrita of the Thousand Antigones

Radio Adaptations of Plays

21. 1978: Retirement

Political Op-Eds

Writing for Le Monde Des Livres

22. 1979-1982: Days and Memory

Lecture Tour in the United States

23. 1982-1985: Days and Memory

"The Seventh Year of the Algerian War"

Battle with Cancer

Final Days

Acknowledgments

Translator's Acknowledgments

Chronology

Works Cited

Permissions

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781613768358

1613768354

OCLC:

1226076128