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Courageously published under wraps in February 1942, it became a cult book. From the preface "despair is dead" written by Vercors itself, you no longer want to let go. This is of a perfect writing where words are weighed to the nearest milligram. Even if you wash already read, immerse ahead with pleasure and delight. Culture does not cost sometimes. "This mess was the image of this country, where only cowards, malignant and evil would continue to hold forth; where other nauraient, protesting that their silence. "Petain had signed what he called" armistice "and those who believed in the victory against Hitler and his retinue dhorreurs were then silenced or death.
This story tells the resistance - not the warrior meaning, of course, but still - where an uncle and a niece silence to oppose the occupier in the person of a German officer who turns out cultured and very polite. If it was a despicable being, the dopposition silent would have been easier But after a trip to Paris with the "Kommandantur" he realizes that he ny no hope of saving the country that he occupies, he who loves France and even any hope of saving lAllemagne of labomination, conscious of their will rub off the flame.
"Silence fell again. Once again, but this time, how much more dark and tense! Certainly, in the silences yesteryear, I felt teeming underwater life hidden feelings, desires and thoughts that deny and struggling. But in this one, ah! quune nothing terrible oppression. "
The spirit never dies, but how long does it take to that it reborn from its ashes?
Book short, incisive book, to put in any hands.
(Article in the Tarn Libre, May 1 2015)