Patagonian Hare

Even if I lived a hundred lives I still wouldn''t be exhausted. These words capture the intensity of the experiences of Claude Lanzmann a man whose acts have always been a negation of resignation: a member of the Resistance at sixteen a friend to Jean-Paul Sartre and a lover to Simone de Beauvoir and the director of one of the most important films in the history of cinema Shoah these pages Lanzmann composes a hymn to life that flows from memory yet has the rhythm of a novel as tumultuous as it is energetic. The Patagonian Hare is the story of a man who has searched at every moment for existential adventure who has committed himself deeply to what he believes in and who has made his life a battle.The Patagonian Hare a number-one bestseller in France has been translated into Spanish German Italian Hebrew Polish Dutch and Portuguese. Claude Lanzmann''s brilliant memoir has been widely acclaimed as a masterpiece was hailed as a true literary and historic event in the pages of Le Monde and was awarded the prestigious Welt-Literaturpreis in Germany.