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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.
The Human Race. Arrested by the Gestapo and deported to Dachau, Robert Antelme recovered his freedom a year later when François Mitterand, visiting the camp in an official ...
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. After he returned to France, he began to write an account of human behaviour in the fight for "bare survival", what he had experienced in the previous eight months. The account was published in 1947 with the title L´Espèce humaine ("The Human Species"), and in 1957 a revised edition was published by Gallimard.
Arrested by the Gestapo and deported to Dachau, Robert Antelme recovered his freedom a year later when François Mitterand, visiting the camp in an official capacity, recognized the dying...
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Rescued in 1945 from Dachau—where François Mitterand, his onetime comrade in the resistance, recognized him among the thousands of quarantined prisoners—Robert Antelme set out to do what seemed...
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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 ...
