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| Original Title: | And There Was Light: Autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran, Blind Hero of the French Resistance |
| ISBN: | 1608682692 (ISBN13: 9781608682690) |
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Jacques Lusseyran
Paperback | Pages: 304 pages Rating: 4.18 | 1632 Users | 379 Reviews
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| Title | : | And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II |
| Author | : | Jacques Lusseyran |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Fourth edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 304 pages |
| Published | : | March 18th 2014 by New World Library (first published September 1st 1963) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. History. Biography. Autobiography. Memoir. War. World War II. Cultural. France |
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When Jacques Lusseyran was an eight-year-old Parisian schoolboy, he was blinded in an accident. He finished his schooling determined to participate in the world around him. In 1941, when he was seventeen, that world was Nazi-occupied France. Lusseyran formed a resistance group with fifty-two boys and used his heightened senses to recruit the best. Eventually, Lusseyran was arrested and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp in a transport of two thousand resistance fighters. He was one of only thirty from the transport to survive. His gripping story is one of the most powerful and insightful descriptions of living and thriving with blindness, or indeed any challenge, ever published.* Chosen as one of the 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century by a jury of writers including Harold Kushner, Thomas Moore, Huston Smith, and Natalie Goldberg
* This fourth edition includes a new insert of photographs
“One of the most powerful memoirs I’ve ever encountered...[Lusseyran’s] experience is thrilling, horrible, honest, spiritually profound, and utterly full of joy.”
— Ethan Hawke, in the Village Voice
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Ratings: 4.18 From 1632 Users | 379 ReviewsWrite-Up Appertaining To Books And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II
What I loved most about this book was Jacques's powerful testimony of God through his whole life. He was always grateful & respectful of God's influence in his life. Next, I loved getting the perspective from an occupied country during WWII. It was good to understand what life was like for those countries taken over by Germany & Hitler's reign.Additionally, Lusseyran gave such a vivid account of blindness that you almost want the opportunity to be blind to experience life with theThis one was a tough one to rate. I'm teetering between two and three stars. The author was obviously very brilliant, it is well written, and his experience was, like other Holocaust survivors, nothing short of amazing. The fact that he was blind only adds to that. The last 80 pages of the book were definitely the best. On the whole he was way too philosophical for my liking. I kept thinking that he should just get on with the story. Still, I am glad I read it, and I greatly admire those who
Impressive memoir of a French man. Having suffered an accident with his glasses which made him go blind, he acquired a new way of interacting with the world, through a strong inner sense of light. A student during the Nazi occupation he formed a group of boys, who later delivered illegal newspapers with the true situation in Europe. This sets you thinking about chance and resilience, hope and how true human power is rooted in love.
All the concentration camp stories are horrific and so is the one of Jacques L. But this book is also about his blindness and how he experienced it. He called himself a visual blind, he had an inner way of seeing. It reminded me of a documentary in which blind children could describe the drawing that was put into their hands. I'm sure they had the same ability JL had. How sad that he survived Buchenwald but died in a car crash when he was 46. It was an interesting read.
I decided to give this book a 5 star because of the wow factor his life was, rather than because it is a page turner or exceptionally well written. It took me almost 2 weeks to read...unheard of for me. However, to appreciate what he is trying to get across to you, you have to take it slow and soak it up. The beginning of the book is the hardest/slowest to get through as he talks about adjusting and living with no 'sight', a truly foreign thought for us. One that even the best imagination would
Amazing book by an amazing man. Jacques Lusseyran went blind as a young boy after a seemingly innocuous accident at school. Ive never before read the memoir of a blind person and his account of how he adapted to his new world and what it entailed was a deeply fascinating education. Even had the Nazis not arrived in Paris where he lived this would have been a compelling memoir. But the fact he then forms one of the first resistance movements cranks up the tension tenfold. The mind boggles at what
Have you ever been at a performance of some exquisite music and at the end, there was this breathless silence of several seconds--the whole audience was absorbed in rapture and could not even move to clap? This is how I feel after reading this book. Writing a review now is difficult because it ends this period of silent rumination and appreciation in my head. Now I stand to clap.First of all--this man, Jacques Lusseyran. What an incredible and beautiful soul. I felt like it was a privilege to
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