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Le Lièvre De Patagonie (2009)

by Claude Lanzmann(Favorite Author)

4.02 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

2070120511 (ISBN13: 9782070120512)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Gallimard

review 1: I enjoyed this book a great deal. I found some of the self-promotion unintentionally humorous (maybe as a result of the translation). The kiss and tell aspect regarding his amorous adventures was interesting, but I thought he did give enough detail of his relationship with Simone de Beauvoir. I found his lengthy description of a romantic/erotic encounter - unconsummated, mind you - with a nurse in North Korea in 1958 odd, to say the least. He reveals a personality that is obsessive. I liked the part about going behind the lines in the Algerian War of Independence. Best part of the book was some of the backstory on "Shoah," and there was great, emotional, detail regarding his efforts to reach the camp barber, Abraham Bomba, whose testimony in the film is, as I recall ... moreit, overpowering. Lanzmann sees himself as the Jewish outsider and simultaneously the quintessential Frenchman. Book is verbose, but probably a reflection of the author.
review 2: How does one review a memoir of this intensity and beauty? Through the evil and horrors of the world that he experienced in his life and through his years as a journalist and filmmaker culminating in "Shoah", Claude Lanzmann shares such an incredibly personal and beautiful story of life, love and determination. And, one learns much about Sartre and deBeauvoir, his very close friends and she also his lover or rather he hers. “I am neither indifferent to, nor weary of, this world; had I a hundred lives, I know I would not tire of it,” he writes. I can just tell you to read it. Slowly. less

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