On Leave [electronic resource]
Daniel Anselme2014
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A lost classic lays bare the darkest moment of France's post-war history
First published in Paris in 1957, as France's engagement in Algeria became ever
more bloody, On Leave received a handful of reviews and soon disappeared from
view. Through David Bellos's translation, this lost classic has been
rediscovered. Spare, forceful and moving, the novel describes a week in the
lives of a sergeant, a corporal and a private, home on leave in Paris. Full of
sympathy and feeling, informed by the many hours Daniel Anselme spent talking to
conscripts in Paris, On Leave is a timeless evocation of what the history books
can never record: the shame and terror felt by men returning home from war.
Daniel Anselme was born Daniel Rabinovitch in 1927, and adopted the name Anselme
while in the French Resistance with his father. He traveled widely as a
journalist, and was known as a raconteur and habitué of Left Bank cafés. He
published his first novel On Leave in 1957, a second, Relations...
Main title:
On Leave [electronic resource] / Daniel Anselme
Author:
Daniel Anselme, Author
Imprint:
United Kingdom : Penguin, 2014
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (256 pages)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780141977553
Language:
English
BRN:
429228
Electronic access:
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