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On leave
- Title
- On leave / Daniel Anselme ; translated from the French by David Bellos.
- Author
- Anselme, Daniel.
- Publication
- New York : Faber and Faber, Inc., an affiliate of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
- Supplementary Content
- Cover image
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 14-2124 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Bellos, David
- Description
- xxii, 198 pages; 20 cm
- Summary
- "When On Leave was published in Paris in 1957, as France's engagement in Algeria became ever more bloody, it told people things they did not want to hear. It vividly described what it was like for soldiers to return home from an unpopular war in a faraway place. The book received a handful of reviews, it was never reprinted, it disappeared from view. With no outcome to the war in sight, its power to disturb was too much to bear. Through David Bello's translation, this lost classic has been rediscovered. Spare, forceful, and moving, it describes a week in the lives of a sergeant, a corporal, and an infantryman, each home on leave in Paris. What these soldiers have to say can't be heard, can't even be spoken; they find themselves strangers in their own city, unmoored from their lives. Full of sympathy and feeling, informed by the many hours Daniel Anselme spent talking to conscripts in Paris, On Leave is a timeless evocation of what the history books can never record: the shame and the terror felt by men returning home from war--
- Uniform Title
- Permission. English
- Alternative Title
- Permission.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- War stories.
- Note
- Includes an interview by Maurice Pons with the author (1957).
- Call Number
- JFD 14-2124
- ISBN
- 9780865478954
- 0865478953
- LCCN
- 2013034994
- OCLC
- 2013034994
- Author
- Anselme, Daniel.
- Title
- On leave / Daniel Anselme ; translated from the French by David Bellos.
- Publisher
- New York : Faber and Faber, Inc., an affiliate of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Bellos, David, translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 14-2124