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1st Canadian Edition of the Jonathan Cape 1st Edition in English of the 1981 De Hann/Unieboek 1st Edition originally titled Dagboek van Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943, precedes the 1984 Pantheon/Random House 1st American Edition, Translated from the Dutch by Arno Pomerans, Introduction by J.G. Gaarlandt.Appears as new, unopened, unread, unblemished contents in DJ displaying no significant wear, as shown, Fine.
"Etty Hillesum is thoroughly recognizable. Independent, "liberated" in the modern sense, sophisticated, she lives with friends in a communal household, studies psychology and literature, has lovers, sees an analyst. Jewish by birth, she feels no strong religious affiliation. She could be any contemporary twenty-seven-year-old woman, but in fact Etty Hillesum lived in Amsterdam and kept her journals in the dark years from 1941 to 1943, years of occupation and genocide. And, despite all the accounts we have of the Nazi era, the diaries of this startlingly modern young… Leer más
