The Lesser Evil - The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-1959

The superb, bestselling diaries of Victor Klemperer, a Jew in Dresden who survived the war - hailed as one of the 20th century's most important chronicles. 'Compulsive reading' LITERARY REVIEW 'Deeply engrossing' SPECTATOR

About the author

Born in 1881, Victor Klemperer studied in Munich, Geneva and Paris. He was a journalist in Berlin, taught at the University of Naples and received a DSM during WWI as a volunteer in the German army. He was subsequently a professor of romance languages at the Dresden Technical College until he was dismissed as a consequence of Nazi laws in 1935. He survived the Holocaust and the war and taught again as an academic until his death in 1960.

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The superb, bestselling diaries of Victor Klemperer, a Jew in Dresden who survived the war - hailed as one of the 20th century's most important chronicles. 'Compulsive reading' LITERARY REVIEW 'Deeply engrossing' SPECTATOR

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The triumph of these diaries ... is precisely this: not for one moment does Klemperer lose his essential humanity. The diaries testify to the integrity of private space and truth to self ... This is the epic of a self-confessedly commonplace mortal with extraordinary qualities of intellect, wit and self-knowledge - recording his insights with unswerving fidelity to the truth

Product details

• Authors: Victor Klemperer, Klemperer Victor
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.10.2021
• EAN: 9781474623193
• ISBN: 978-1-4746-2319-3
• No. of pages: 672
• Dimensions: 136 mm x 215 mm x 38 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Biography: general, Diaries, letters & journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, HISTORY / Holocaust, HISTORY / Jewish, Jewish Studies, Second World War, The Holocaust, Autobiography: historical, political and military, Diaries, letters and journals, Relating to Jewish people and groups