Be the first to ask a question about the human race. The human race united states holocaust memorial museum. Lespece humaine, 1947 robert antelme traces his life as a kommando at gandersheim, a particularly brutal subcamp of buchenwald, then on a death march, and finally at dachaus liberation. Robert antel me 5 january 1917, sartene, corsedusud 26 october 1990 was a french writer. The human species lespece humaine memoir by robert antelme, 1947. Robert antelme buchenwald memorial gedenkstatte buchenwald. Jeffrey haight is also the translator of antelmes the human race the marlboro pressnorthwestern, 1998. Published in france in 1947, here translated for the first time, antelme s memoir of his year 194445 in a german labor camp was written to assuage his guilt at surviving and to deal with his. He wrote poems in preparation for a book of poetry. He currently teaches at franklin pierce college and the college for lifelong learning of the university system of new hampshire. Arrested by the gestapo and deported to dachau, robert antelme recov.
The human race marlboro pressnorthwestern, 1998 was antelmes sole publication. During the second world war he was involved in the. The human race robert antelme, jeffrey haight, annie mahler on amazon. Antelme, renoir, levinas and the shock of the other. Levis if this is a man and robert antelmes the human race lespece humaine. In the last chapter of the book, for example, while describing the situation of the. Lespece humaine its title, antelme asserts that the human species is single. Robert antelme was 26 years old when, in 1943, he joined a french resistance unit in paris headed by francois mitterand. The book related his experience of detention in concentration camps. During the second world war he was involved in the french resistance and deported in 1939 he married marguerite duras.