by Aharon Appelfeld · OLIVIER · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782879294391
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«Histoire d'une vie» is the autobiographical account by Aharon Appelfeld, published by Éditions de l'Olivier in paperback (240 pages, in French).
Through fragments of memory, Aharon Appelfeld evokes his childhood in Czernowitz, the portraits of his assimilated Jewish parents and the spirituality of his grandparents; then he addresses the Nazi persecution, the years of wandering and his arrival in Israel. The account closes with personal reconstruction through silence, contemplation and Hebrew.
Winner of the Prix Médicis étranger in 2004. The French edition was published in the Littérature étrangère collection.
For readers of memoirs and Holocaust testimonies, and for those interested in Israeli autobiographical narrative.
Aharon Appelfeld was an Israeli novelist and Holocaust survivor.
