Days and Memory

In this her last book, completed shortly before her death, Delbo becomes the living voice of memory, conjuring a series of poems and vignettes, dialogues and meditations that interweave her experience in the death camp with the suffering of others around the world who bear remembering. These scenes comprise a comprehensive picture of man's inhumanity to man (and woman) in our time, and of the power of human dignity, decency, and the hope to survive.

Here are memories from the German concentration camps that have figured strongly in Delbo's previous writings, with them are images from the Second World War: sketches of the Polish partisans in Warsaw and the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto; and depictions of Parisian Jews rounded up by the French police, and of the Germans' slaughter of all the men in a Greek village. Delbo also recalls events in Greece and Spain that occurred decades after the war. She shows us the women of Buenos Aires assembled to remember and protest the "disappearing" of their fathers, husbands, and sons. And she appeals to memory on behalf o

Charlotte Delbo was traveling in South America when she learned of the fall of France to the Nazis. Upon returning home, she and her husband were imprisoned by the Gestapo. After the murder of her husband, Delbo was held for nine months before being deported to Auschwitz in January 1943. She was in her seventies when she died in 1985. Days and Memory, published posthumously, appeared as La mTmoire et les jours later that same year.

Preface

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Rosette Lamont

I

1

(4)

II

5

(2)

III

7

(2)

IV

9

(6)

V

15

(2)

VI

17

(8)

VII

25

(4)

VIII

29

(2)

IX

31

(6)

X: Tomb of the Dictator

37

(8)

XI

45

(6)

XII

51

(8)

XIII: Warsaw

59

(8)

XIV

67

(4)

XV

71

(4)

XVI

75

(2)

XVII

77

(2)

XVIII: The Madwomen of May

79

(8)

XVIV: Kalavrita of the Thousand Antigones

87

(22)

XX

109

(2)

XXI

111

(6)

XXII

117

(2)

XXIII

119

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