Shoah
Claude Lanzmann · 1985
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About the book
Shoah is not an easy film to talk about. There is a magic in this film that defies explanation. After the war we read masses of accounts of the ghettos and the extermination camps, and we were devastated. But when, today, we see Claude Lanzmann's extraordinary film, we realize we have understood nothing. In spite of everything we knew, the ghastly experience remained remote from us. Now, for the first time, we live it in our minds, hearts and flesh. It becomes our experience. Neither fiction nor documentary, Shoah succeeds in recreating the past with an amazing economy of means -- places, voices, faces. The greatness of Claude Lanzmann's art is in making places speak, in reviving them through voices and, over and above words, conveying the unspeakable through people's expressions. - Preface.
First sentence: The story begins in the present at Chelmo, on the Narew River, in Poland.
Book details
- Year
- 1985
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Editions
- 8
- Pages
- 200
- ISBN
- 9780394743295
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