Asylum: A Survivor's Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime France - Couverture souple

Scheyer, Moriz

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0316272892 ISBN 13 : 9780316272896

Editeur : Little, Brown Spark, 2017

Synopsis

A recently discovered account of an Austrian Jewish writer's flight, persecution, and clandestine life in wartime France.

As arts editor for one of Vienna's principal newspapers, Moriz Scheyer knew many of the city's foremost artists, and was an important literary journalist. With the advent of the Nazis he was forced from both job and home. In 1943, in hiding in France, Scheyer began drafting what was to become this book.

Tracing events from the Anschluss in Vienna, through life in Paris and unoccupied France, including a period in a French concentration camp, contact with the Resistance, and clandestine life in a convent caring for mentally disabled women, he gives an extraordinarily vivid account of the events and experience of persecution.

After Scheyer's death in 1949, his stepson, disliking the book's anti-German rhetoric, destroyed the manuscript. Or thought he did. Recently, a carbon copy was found in the family's attic by P.N. Singer, Scheyer's step-grandson, who has translated and provided an epilogue.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Moriz Scheyer (1886-1949) was arts editor of one of Vienna's main newspapers from 1924 until his expulsion in 1938. A personal friend of Stefan Zweig, in his own lifetime he published three books of travel writing and three volumes of literary-historical essays. He died in France in 1949.

P. N. Singer is Scheyer's step-grandson, a writer, and a translator.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Little, Brown Spark
• Date d'édition: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0316272892
• ISBN 13: 9780316272896
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible