Auschwitz And After

Description

Written by a mamber 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.

Reviews

"I find Rosette C. Lamont's remarkable translation of Charlotte Delbo's work perceptive, delicate, and poignant-in short: exceptional."-Elie Wiesel -- Elie Wiesel "For 75 years, Nazism's victims have told their affliction. This will carry on. Meanwhile, no other "Auschwitz" writer than Charlotte Delbo has so clearly shown human detail and human depth."-John Felstiner, author of Can Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems -- John Felstiner "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 -- Sara R. Horowitz

Author description

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.