Thursday 22 August 2013

And There Was Light

By Jacques Lusseyran, 1985
This luminous autobiography tells Lusseyran’s story, a blind man who discovered the gift of inner sight after losing his vision in a childhood accident. He then put his gift to use in the struggle against Nazism. His description of what it is like to "see" as a blind man is fascinating. His account of Buchenwald is an anguishing fragment of Holocaust testimony.

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