They Shall Not Have Me (ePub)
The Capture, Forced Labor, and Escape of a French Prisoner in World War II
(Sprache: Englisch)
The French painter Jean Hélion's unique and deeply moving account of his experiences in Nazi prisoner-of-war camps prefigures the even darker stories that would emerge from the concentration camps. This serious adventure tale begins with Hélion's infantry...
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The French painter Jean Hélion's unique and deeply moving account of his experiences in Nazi prisoner-of-war camps prefigures the even darker stories that would emerge from the concentration camps. This serious adventure tale begins with Hélion's infantry platoon fleeing from the German army and warplanes as they advanced through France in the early days of the war. The soldiers chant as they march and run, They shall not have me! but are quickly captured and sent to hard labor.
Writing in English in 1943, after his risky escape to freedom in the United States, Hélion vividly depicts the sights, sounds, and smells of the camps, and shrewdly sizes up both captors and captured. In the deep humanity, humor, and unsentimental intelligence of his observations, we can recognize the artist whose long career included friendships with the likes of Mondrian, Giacometti, and Balthus, and an important role in shaping modern art movements. Hélion's picture of almost two years without his art is a self-portrait of the artist as a man.
Writing in English in 1943, after his risky escape to freedom in the United States, Hélion vividly depicts the sights, sounds, and smells of the camps, and shrewdly sizes up both captors and captured. In the deep humanity, humor, and unsentimental intelligence of his observations, we can recognize the artist whose long career included friendships with the likes of Mondrian, Giacometti, and Balthus, and an important role in shaping modern art movements. Hélion's picture of almost two years without his art is a self-portrait of the artist as a man.
Autoren-Porträt von Jean Helion
Jean Hélion was a noted French modernist painter and author. He was a member of the Free French Forces during World War II. His work later influenced Roy Lichtenstein, Nell Blaine, and Leland Bell. He died in 1987.Deborah M. Rosenthal, consulting editor for the Artists & Art series, is a New York painter and writer. She is a professor of art in the School of Fine and Performing Arts at Rider University.
Jacqueline Hélion, the widow of the painter, lives in Paris.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Jean Helion
- 2014, Proprietary, 448 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
- ISBN-10: 1628724056
- ISBN-13: 9781628724059
- Erscheinungsdatum: 03.06.2014
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“A meticulously observed description of the lives of French POWs as virtual slaves of the Third Reich, with vivid delineations of both captors and captives.” —The Wall Street Journal“One of the most sensational escapes from the Nazis in World War II.” —Time
“Jean Hélion was one of France’s leading modernist painters, even before his capture by the Germans in 1940 when he was 33. His account of his adventures in captivity is both terrifying and funny (one of his tormentors was the appropriately-names Kommandofuhrer Jurk), somewhat in the Vein of Tarantino’s film Inglorious Basterds. A best-seller after it was published in America while the war was still raging, it has remained for many, including Helion’s legions of admirers in both France and the United States, a one-of-a-kind classic. It’s wonderful to have it back in print again.” —John Ashbery, American poet
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