EXODUS: the face of poetic resistance under the Holocaust
- Publisher
- Joseph Norman Editions
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2008
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780888351012
- Publish Date
- Aug 2008
- List Price
- $19.95
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Description
Considered by many as the definitive expression of poetic resistance under the Holocaust, Fondane’s Exodus is quoted at the entrance to the Hall of Names, Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem. Completed in Paris under the Nazi occupation, Exodus appears here for the first time in English.
About the authors
Fondane was a Romanian-born French Surrealist poet and filmmaker of Jewish heritage. He chose to remain in Paris, where he continued to write until his arrest and deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau where he died in 1944.
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Pierre L’Abbé was born in Pembroke, Ontario to French Canadian parents and grew up in Toronto. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Religion from the U. of Toronto for which he conducted research in France. A writer of both poetry and fiction his Ten Days in Rio was compared to Chekhov by The Globe and Mail.