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Robert Antelme (5 January 1917, Sartène, Corse-du-Sud – 26 October 1990) was a French writer. During the Second World War he was involved in the French Resistance and deported. In 1939 he married Marguerite Duras. Their child died at birth in 1942.
Robert Antelme est un poète, écrivain et résistant français, né le 5 janvier 1917 à Sartène et mort le 26 octobre 1990 à Paris 7e . Survivant des camps de Buchenwald et de Dachau, il est l'auteur de plusieurs ouvrages, dont un livre de référence sur les camps de concentration nazis : L'Espèce humaine, paru en 1947. Biographie.
Oct 26, 1990 · Robert Antelme (1917–1990), 1937. ©Institut Mémoires de l’Edition Contemporaires (IMEC), Paris. Robert Antelme was born in Sartène, Corsica on 5 January 1917. In 1936, he studied law in Paris, from 1937 to 1939 he served in the military, followed by active duty.
On Robert Antelme's The Human Race Essays and Commentary. Edited by Daniel Dobbels. Translated by Jeffrey Haight. by Robert Antelme. Imprint: Marlboro Press
Oct 26, 1990 · Robert Antelme was a French writer. During the Second World War he was involved in the French Resistance. Antelme was arrested and deported on 1 July 1944. He was at Buchenwald, then Gandersheim.
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Antelme understands survivors' accounts to posit continuity and identity; they are accounts not of the triumph of man but of sheer, unglorious resilience, of surviving muteness without overcoming it.
Robert Antelme survived imprisonment at Gandersheim, an especially cruel subcamp of Buchenwald, a death march, and finally incarceration at Dachau, where he was liberated. He is best known for his work The Human Species (1992; L'Espéce humaine, 1947), which tells this story and maintains that the human race is indissolubly one, a point shown ...
