Against the Pollution of the I by Jacques Lusseyran

Against the Pollution of the I by Jacques Lusseyran

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Against the Pollution of the I by Jacques Lusseyran

Despite being blinded as a child, Jacques Lusseyran went on to help form a key unit of the French Resistance and survive the Nazis Buchenwald concentration camp. He wrote about these experiences in his inspiring memoir, And There Was Light. In this remarkable collection of essays, Lusseyran writes of how blindness enabled him to discover aspects of the world that he would not otherwise have known. In Poetry in Buchenwald, he describes the unexpected nourishment he and his fellow prisoners found in poetry. In What One Sees Without Eyes he describes a divine inner light available to all. Just as Lusseyran transcended his most difficult experiences, his writings give triumphant voice to the human ability to see beyond sight and act with unexpected heroism.
Lusseyran, Jacques: - Jacques Lusseyran lost his sight at eight years of age. In World War II France, he founded at sixteen and a half a resistance network which brought together two thousand high school and university students. He was arrested and sent to Buchenwald. Later he became a professor of literature in an American university. His wife died with him in an automobile accident in 1971. He was forty-seven years old.
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ISBN 13 9781608683864
ISBN 10 1608683869
Title Against the Pollution of the I
Author Jacques Lusseyran
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher New World Library
Year published 2016-02-16
Number of pages 192
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