An interrupted life : the diaries and letters of Etty Hillesum, 1941-43
Hillesum, Etty, 1914-19432016
Book
Etty Hillesum (1914-43) lived in Amsterdam, like Anne Frank, and like her she kept a diary. "All the writings she left behind", writes Eva Hoffman in her Preface to this edition of her diaries and letters, "were composed in the shadow of the Holocaust", but they resist being read primarily in its darkness. Rather, their abiding interest lies in the light-filled mind that pervades them and in the astonishing internal journey they chart. Etty's pilgrimage grew out of the intimate experience of an intellectual young woman - it was idiosyncratic, individual, and recognisably modern... The private person who revealed herself in her diary was impassioned, erotically volatile, restless... Yet she had the kind of genius for introspection that converts symptoms into significance and joins self-examination to philosophical investigation... In the last stages of her amazing and moving journey, Etty seemed to attain that peace which passeth understanding... Finally, however, the violence and brutality she saw all around her overwhelmed even her capacity to understand... But by knowing and feeling so deeply and fully, an unknown young woman became one of the most exceptional and truest witnesses of the devastation through which she lived.
Main title:
An interrupted life : the diaries and letters of Etty Hillesum, 1941-43 / with a preface by Eva Hoffman ; and introduction by Jan G. Gaarlandt ; translated from the Dutch by Arnold J. Pomerans.
Author:
Hillesum, Etty, 1914-1943, authorHoffman, Eva, author of introduction, etcGaarlandt, J. G., author of introduction, etcPomerans, Arnold J., translator
Imprint:
London : Persephone Books, [2016]©1999
Collation:
xxviii, 430 pages : 1 portrait ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Persephone book ; 5.
Notes:
"First published as two volumes in the Netherlands 1981 and 1982, in the UK by Jonathan Cape 1983 and 1987, in the US by Pantheon Books, 1984 and 1986. First published as one vol. by Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, Inc., New York, 1996"--Title page verso.
ISBN:
9780953478057 (pbk)9780953478057 (paperback)
Dewey class:
940.531809492940.5318
Language:
EnglishDutch
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Subject:
BRN:
592021
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library at the Dock | -Biography | BIOG 940.5318 HILL | On loan - Due: 31 Jul 2026 |