Jacques Lusseyran: 2 books
And There Was Light
The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
The book that helped inspire Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See An updated edition of this classic World War II memoir, chosen as one of the 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century, with a new photo insert and restored passages from the original French edition When Jacques Lusseyran...
Against the Pollution of the I
On the Gifts of Blindness, the Power of Poetry, and the Urgency of Awareness
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
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...