NONE OF US WILL RETURN

by Charlotte Delbo ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 1, 1968

This is that inexorable itinerary from the streets to the boxcars to the concentration camp (Auschwitz), with its searchlights and electrified fence, its morgue (a wooden barracks) and of course its gas chamber. Charlotte Delbo. one of those who ""should not have returned,"" was a resistance fighter and wrote this at the time...skeletal figures move across a gelid landscape... waiting.... ""We wait. We wait for day because we must wait for something. We do not wait for death. It waits for us"" in the ominous roll calls and corteges, the marches, etc. Here once again that dreadful processional from the rack to the void is distinguished by the remarkable purity and classic austerity of her prose. ""Try to look. Try to see.

Pub Date: April 1, 1968

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Grove

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1968

Categories: NONFICTION