I Will Bear Witness, Volume 1: A Diary of the Nazi Years: 1933-1941 - Brossura

Klemperer, Victor

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ISBN 10: 0375753788 ISBN 13: 9780375753787

Casa editrice: Random House Publishing Group, 1999

Riassunto

The author recounts daily life under the Nazis from Hitler's rise to power to the eve of World War II, describing the gradual tightening of Nazi control over every aspect of his life

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Recensione:

One of the great testimonies of our century. . . . Klemperer's ability to grasp moods and attitudes has a truly Dickensian quality. --Los Angeles Times. What has been called one of the most remarkable documents to come out of the Second World War turns out to be one of the most compulsively readable books of the year. The San Diego Union Tribune. For the next generation of historians, Klemperer's diaries will be required reading.--Gordon Craig, The New York Review of Books. To read his almost day-by-day account is a hypnotic experience; the whole, hard to put down, is a true murder mystery--from the perspective of the victim. --Peter Gay, The New York Times Book Review

L'autore:

A professor of Romance languages in Dresden, Victor Klemperer wrote several major works on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French literature before he was expelled from his post in 1935. He lived through the war in Dresden with his wife, Eva. Klemperer's secret diaries were thought for many years to have been lost or suppressed by the Communist authorities of East Germany, where Klemperer lived after the war. He wife deposited them after his death in 1960 in the Dresden Landesarchiv, where they remained until they were uncovered by Victor Nowojski, a former pupil, who edited and transcribed them for publication in Germany. Their reception there was a national event. The diaries have been translated into twelve languages.

About the Translator

Martin Chalmers has translated, from the German, books by Hubert Fichte, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and Erich Fried. He is a frequent contributor to the New Statesman and The Independent, and lives in London.

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• Editore: Random House Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0375753788
• ISBN 13: 9780375753787
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 544