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Despite being blinded as a kid, Jacques Lusseyran went directly to assist shape a key unit of the French Resistance and live on the Nazis’ Buchenwald focus camp. He wrote approximately those stories in his inspiring memoir, And There Was once Light. On this exceptional choice of essays, Lusseyran writes of the way blindness enabled him to find sides of the arena that he could no longer in a different way have recognized. In Poetry in Buchenwald,” he describes the surprising nourishment he and his fellow prisoners present in poetry. In What One Sees With out Eyes” he describes a divine interior gentle to be had to all. Simply as Lusseyran transcended his such a lot tricky stories, his writings provide effective voice to the human skill to look past sight and act with surprising heroism.
