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Kapferer Catherine - Collection Intimité du christianisme
Résumé
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Neither a novel, nor an essay, nor a chronicle... Covering the period from 1941 to 1946, here are the actual diary and poems written in Paris and Normandy by a young French student of mixed Jewish and Christian descent. She wrote these pages between the ages of 17 and 22, describing her activities and emotions and those of her friends, and telling of her encounters and her faith during the Second World War. Deliberately concealing the darkest aspects of the Occupation until 1942-though fear-she contents herself with recounting, as calmly as possible, the mundane facts of her everyday existence (a history exposé to write for the Sorbonne, the German police in the Metro, picking blackberries on a forest path, the first steps of a baby whose father, a Resistant, died after being deported...). Up till 1942, God seems to be absent and fear is concealed. But, from April '42, when the grip and horror of the Nazi Occupation gains momentum, God becomes her principal interlocutor and confidant, the ally who can forgive. The stifled silence and cries are aflame in these almost mystical pages and poems. The day following her Baptism on Christmas Eve 1943, she left Paris under a false identity, and it was near Nemours, south-east of Fontainebleau, while she was working in a refuge for children from the bombed Parisian suburbs, that she saw the first tanks from the Normandy landings and danced with the American soldiers. Finally, in 1945, she discovered the reality of the concentration camps and the difficult return to a life which could never resemble her pre-War existence.
Caractéristiques techniques
PAPIER | |
Éditeur(s) | Cerf |
Auteur(s) | Kapferer Catherine |
Collection | Intimité du christianisme |
Parution | 06/06/2011 |
Format | 14.6 x 21.5 |
Couverture | Broché |
Poids | 453g |
EAN13 | 9782204092043 |
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