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Auschwitz and After: Second Edition

Name: Auschwitz and After: Second Edition
Author: Charlotte Delbo
ISBN: 9780300190779

by Charlotte Delbo, Rosette C. Lamont (Translator), Lawrence L. Langer (Introduction)

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Overview

Written by a member of the French resistance who became an important literary figure in postwar France, this moving memoir of life and death in Auschwitz and the post-war experiences of women survivors has become a key text for Holocaust studies classes. This second edition includes an updated and expanded introduction by Holocaust scholar Lawrence L. Langer. “In this finely translated trilogy, Charlotte Delbo renders with economy and nuance pictures from the hell of Auschwitz. What she recalls in prose and verse would be unbearable except for the very precision of thought and sense she brings to it. No memoir of those times is more sensitive and less sentimental.”—Geoffrey Hartman, Yale University Winner of the 1995 American Literary Translators Association Award

Synopsis

Written by a member of the French resistance who became an important literary figure in postwar France, this moving memoir of life and death in Auschwitz and the postwar experiences of women survivors has become a key text for Holocaust studies classes. This second edition includes an updated and expanded introduction and new bibliography by Holocaust scholar Lawrence L. Langer.

“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

Charlotte Delbo (1913–1985) was the author of numerous plays and essays. Rosette C. Lamont (1927–2012) was 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.