![]() He wrote Et la lumière fut (and some other books), where he describes the first half of his life until his liberation in 1945. He survived the concentration camp and was liberated at the end of the war after which he became professor of French literature - in the US, because law from the Vichy government that were still in place until many years later prevented him from doing so in France due to his blindness. Jacques Lusseyran (1924 - 1971) became blind after an accident at the age of eight, was a brilliant student, led a French Résistance movement, was captured eventually by the Nazis in 1943 and later interned in Buchenwald. Le voyant - Jérôme Garcin (an "exercise in admiration" about Lusseyran's life) ![]() Only the second was entirely read in 2016, but I can't talk about it without the other one.Įt la lumière fut - Jacques Lusseyran (an autobiography) and I could probably add many books for France this year, but these two really impressed me already. Here a first review (or two actually) for the European Reading Challenge.
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