Exclusive access to several collections of unpublished letters and manuscripts and extensive interviews provide the basis for an account of Colette's relationship with the notorious Willy, lesbian experiences, music-hall career, and success as a writer

Colette (English and French Edition)

Sarde, Michèle

Biographies & Memoirs

William Morrow & Co.

Jacques the Frenchman: Memories of the Gulag

Rossi, Jacques

Historical

University of Toronto Press

Review\nJacques Rossi stands perhaps second only to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in his contributions to our anthropological understanding of the Gulag [...] Rossi's detailed descriptions of Gulag life near Norilsk, from intimate portraits of fellow prisoners to an analysis of whether a damaged can or a hat was better for receiving one's soup ration, are endlessly fascinating. - Jeffrey S. Hardy, Brigham Young University - The Russian Review\nA cross between a memoir and a conversation, Jacques the Frenchman is a fascinating story that details both Jacques Rossi's career as a Soviet spy and his experiences as a Gulag prisoner. Rossi's keen abilities of observation shine through the pages, seemingly unclouded by decades of persecution. - Alan Barenberg, Department of History, Texas Tech University\nShedding light on issues such as criminal subculture, Jacques the Frenchman provides rare and astounding insights into the Gulag, the pre‐Gulag detention prisons, and, particularly, the mindset of someone who went from a strong believer in the communist system to, eventually, someone who rejected that system. - Wilson Bell, Department of Philosophy, History, and Politics, Thompson Rivers University\nJacques Rossi is one of Stalin’s most well-known victims. Author of The Gulag Handbook, a fascinating encyclopedia of the Soviet forced labor camps, Rossi spent twenty years in interrogation, prison, and Gulag detention. Born to a prominent Polish father and French mother, the young Jacques became attracted to communism as a blueprint for radical social reform. He spent years in the communist underground in interwar Europe, agitating for the revolution, but he was arrested during Stalin’s Great Purges in 1937. This book represents a conversation between Jacques Rossi and Michèle Sarde, professor emerita at Georgetown University, and weaves together personal reflections and historical analysis.\nRossi’s remarkable life (1909–2004) spanned the twentieth century and sheds important light on the tumultuous history of Europe – the appeal of communism in the interwar period and beyond, the mentality of party members, the effects of mass repression, everyday life in Stalin’s Gulag, and the problem of rights for former prisoners during the Khrushchev era. As he abandoned his internationalist communist beliefs, Rossi increasingly identified as French, embracing the name his fellow prisoners gave him in the Gulag, "Jacques the Frenchman." Rossi’s reflections on his own political beliefs, his frustrations with those who could not accept the truth of his brutal experiences in the Soviet Union, and his life as a witness to one of the twentieth century’s worst crimes offer a fascinating history of Stalinism and its legacies.

A novel that tells the story of a Jewish family in World War II and reaches deep into Jewish history.\nBorn in Brittany on the threshold of World War II, novelist Michèle Sarde had long been silent about her origins. After her mother, Jenny, finally shared their family history, Sarde decided to reconstruct Jenny’s journey, including her exile from Salonica, move to Paris in 1921, and assimilation in France. The Nazi occupation then forced her and her family to hide and conceal their Jewish identity, and in this retelling, Sarde shows how Jenny fights with everything she has to survive the Holocaust and protect her daughter.\nReturning from Silence is a powerful saga that reaches deep into Jewish history, opening with the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 and their settlement in a more tolerant Ottoman Empire. Sephardi culture and language flourished in Salonica for four centuries, but with the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the 1920s, and the sense of troubling times to come, Jenny’s family felt impelled to leave their much-loved city and rebuild their lives in France. Their years in France led to change that none could have fully expected, and then, the Holocaust. The trauma lasts well into the post-war period, silencing both mother and daughter in unanticipated ways.\nThrough this family history, Sarde sensitively raises questions about identity, migration, and assimilation while weaving fiction together with history, research, and testimony to bring the characters’ stories to life.

Returning from Silence: Jenny’s Story

Community & Culture

Swan Isle Press

Colette, libre et entravée

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

POINTS

Vous Doña Gracia: L'aïeule de la tribu perdue

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

MIALET BARRAULT

Vous, Marguerite Yourcenar

ROBERT LAFFONT

Revenir du silence

Julliard

Fruit des amours illégitimes d'une Tonkinoise et d'un militaire français qui l'abandonne, la petite Kim naît à Hanoi à la veille de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Cette naissance marque la mère du sceau de l'infamie de la transgression raciale et de la collaboration avec le colonisateur. La petite fille puis l'adolescente doit, elle, surmonter la triple difficulté d'être femme, bâtarde et métisse pour conquérir son indépendance. Métisse blanche retrace avec force les vingt premières années de l'existence de l'auteur au Vietnam, avant son départ salvateur pour la France. Retour à la saison des pluies est le récit poignant de ses retrouvailles avec son pays d'origine, trente ans après. Kim Lefèvre ne trouve là qu'un miroir brisé : lieux et gens ont tellement changé...

Métisse blanche

Reference

Lefèvre, Kim

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Editions de l'Aube

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