33 Days: A Memoir (Neversink), by Leon Werth
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A rare eyewitness account by an important author of fleeing the Nazis’ march on Paris in 1940, featuring a never-before-published introduction by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. In June of 1940, Leon Werth and his wife fled Paris before the advancing Nazis Army. 33 Days is his eyewitness account of that experience, one of the largest civilian dispacements in history. Encouraged to write 33 Days by his dear friend, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author of The Little Prince, Werth finished the manuscript while in hiding in the Jura mountains. Saint-Exupéry smuggled the manuscript out of Nazi-occupied France, wrote an introduction to the work and arranged for its publication in the United States by Brentanos. But the publication never came to pass, and Werth’s manuscript would disappear for more than fifty years until the first French edition, in 1992. It has since become required reading in French schools. This, the first-ever English language translation of 33 Days, includes Saint-Exupéry’s original introduction for the book, long thought to be lost. It is presented it here for the first time in any language. After more than seventy years, 33 Days appears—complete and as it was fully intended.
33 Days: A Memoir (Neversink), by Leon Werth- Amazon Sales Rank: #878950 in Books
- Brand: Werth, Leon/ Johnston, Austin D. (TRN)
- Published on: 2015-05-12
- Released on: 2015-05-12
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.99" h x .37" w x 4.99" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 144 pages
Review “The riveting 33 Days, now in its first English translation, proves that the author was no mere footnote."—New York Magazine“[Werth is] a sharp-eyed witness to the chaotic exodus… The reunion was worth waiting for.”—The Atlantic“A searing chronicle of France’s 1940 exodus...A publishing event in its own right; and almost certainly the best eye witness account of l’Exode."—Nick Lezard, The Guardian (UK)“Genius... Lyrical yet brutally descriptive... The real suspense here is in the tension between the absolutely trivial and the absolutely terrible—a tension powerful enough to sustain the entirety of this important memoir."—Jewish Book Council“33 Days, admirably translated by Austin Denis Johnston, is a beautifully written portrait not just of the shock of sudden occupation, but an eloquent essay on the meaning of how to remain human, even in the face of such confusing adversity."—Times Literary Supplement (UK)“Riveting...masterful... Werth’s short book – fast-paced, engaging and philosophical all at once – offers an astonishingly honest and perceptive expression of life under occupation."—PopMatters, 9 out of 10 stars“With its gentle prose, the narrator’s constant questioning and occasional humour, 33 Days is a valuable record of the those fleeing Paris and a subtle yet fierce inquiry as to what it means to be occupied."—3:AM Magazine“With nothing to steady oneself in this moment of complete upheaval, at least the reader has Werth’s intellectual honesty, precision of observation, and sensitivity to particularity… This is the skill of a writer...that can, in unusual circumstances, turn an author into a necessary interpreter of an increasingly unfathomable world."—Cleaver“Extraordinary... An invaluable document of history as well as a riveting literary narrative."—Kirkus Reviews
About the Author LÉON WERTH (1878-1955) was a novelist, biographer, art critic, journalist, memoirist and political commentator. He was the author of more than 30 works and was a finalist for the Goncourt Prize. ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY (1900-1944), the “Winged Poet,” was born in Lyon, France, in 1900. A pilot at twenty-six, he was a pioneer of commercial aviation and flew in the Spanish Civil War and World War II. His writings include The Little Prince, Wind, Sand and Stars, Night Flight, Southern Mail, and Airman’s Odyssey. In 1944, while flying a reconnaissance mission for his French air squadron, he disappeared over the Mediterranean.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Leaving Paris, Fleeing the Nazis By Rob Hardy You may have been puzzled by the dedication at the beginning of _The Little Prince_, wherein Antoine de Saint-Exupéry apologizes to children for dedicating the book to a grownup. He explains that the grownup to whom he dedicates the book is “his best friend in the world,” and that “he lives in France where he is hungry and cold.” He ends the dedication, and avoids the association with grownups by closing with, “To Léon Werth, when he was a little boy.” I knew nothing more about Léon Werth until I read his book _33 Days_ (Melville House Publishing), translated and edited by Austin Denis Johnson. The memoir explains why he was in France and hungry and cold: it was the beginning of the occupation of France and he was fleeing the Germans. The account here covers his days after leaving Paris in a slow trek with his wife southward to the free zone. He was thus taking part in what is known as “_l’Exode_” or “The Exodus,” about which I, too, was ignorant even though it involved something like eight million people, the largest mass migration in human history. Werth’s is one of the few eyewitness accounts, and is harrowing and funny by turns; he is an expert observer, and far too intelligent a writer to descend into propaganda.We almost never saw this book. Werth entrusted it to Saint-Exupéry to smuggle out of France. Werth, being Jewish, could publish nothing on his own. Saint-Exupéry was headed to New York to encourage American intervention in the war, and he found a publisher, but the manuscript was inexplicably lost, to be found only in 1992. This is the first English language translation and the first in which the introduction and text are together. Werth’s account starts its 33 days on 10 June 1940, in Paris, where no one knows what is going on, but the Germans are coming (Paris was to surrender four days later). He and his wife head south, but the traffic becomes a rout. Their car joins a caravan of other cars, backed up for miles. He hears for the first time the words, “France is betrayed.” The trek becomes a slow-motion nightmare. Cars fail and are cast to the side of the road. Some get to be pulled by oxen. Horses pull wagons until they are exhausted and die. The biggest shock he has to undergo is to see some of his fellow Frenchmen accept the intrusion of the Germans, and even that Germans are more welcome to the region’s inhabitants than fleeing Frenchmen. “We are evidently not in France. We are not exactly in Germany either. We’re in a country we didn’t know existed: a France that has come to terms with the German victory, or rejoices in it, a France that feels no connection to French customs or French character.”Finally, they reach the free zone. At the time he was writing, he could not know that he was in for a war of isolation, cold, hunger, and deprivation. He was to condemn Vichy France and become a Gaullist during the Nazi occupation, but that destiny is not contained here. The words toward the end of the book thus are written in glee but are sad: “We’re now driving in the free zone. We never imagined we could be so taken by such a word. Free, we’re free… We can go where we like, forward, backward, right as easily as left… It makes us giddy.” Full of gentle, questioning, mocking prose, this is a unique account of an important historical event and an investigation of the initial meaning of the occupation. Werth was to survive the war, but to reflect that peace without his great friend Saint-Exupéry cannot truly be peace. “Where are you?” he asks in the text, and compares his own way of writing to that of his friend, “I don’t even know if you’re alive. I dream sometimes that your airplane had been hit, that it crashed in a catastrophe of scrap metal and fire. I drag myself along in my old metier. I recount the lowly; I tell, in the immensity of this war, the stories of insects.” No; this is the story of people learning what war is.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. It is a wonder that this book was discovered. ... By Ellen It is a wonder that this book was discovered. Leon Werth was a friend of Antoine de Saint Exupery. Saint Exupery dedicated his famous "Little Prince" to him. This manuscript was recently discovered and is most touching.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Very interesting for me as I'd never read anything about ... By Lara27 Very interesting for me as I'd never read anything about this subject. Down to the personal level of someone who fled the Germans as they advanced into France, it made me feel almost as if I were there with them. It left me wanting to read his later, more extensive book on their life in the area they fled to, but it is only in French! Can't find it in English anywhere.
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