Le Lièvre de Patagonie

By Claude Lanzmann

Book Overview

"Even if I lived a hundred lives, I still wouldn't be exhausted." These words capture the intensity of the experiences of Claude Lanzmann, a man whose acts have always been a negation of resignation: a member of the Resistance at sixteen, a friend to Jean-Paul Sartre and a lover to Simone de Beauvoir, and the director of one of the most important films in the history of cinema, Shoah . In these pages, Lanzmann composes a hymn to life that flows from memory yet has the rhythm of a novel, as tumultuous as it is energetic. The Patagonian Hare is the story of a man who has searched at every moment for existential adventure, who has committed himself deeply to what he believes in, and who has made his life a battle. The Patagonian Hare , a number-one bestseller in France, has been translated into Spanish, German, Italian, Hebrew, Polish, Dutch, and Portuguese. Claude Lanzmann's brilliant memoir has been widely acclaimed as a masterpiece, was hailed as "a true literary and historic event" in the pages of Le Monde , and was awarded the prestigious Welt-Literaturpreis in Germany.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374230048
• ISBN13: 9780374230043
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"