Background
Antelme Robert was born on January 5, 1917 in Sartin, South Corsica. He fos from an intelligent bourgeois family. Being an active member of the Resistance Movement, he was arrested by the Gestapo in 1944, released from Dachau in 1945.
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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 Antelme and had him spirited to Paris. Antelme's story of his experiences in Germany--his only book--indelibly marked an entire generation, "a work written without hatred, a work of boundless compassion such as that is to be found only in the great Russians." 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 Antelme and had him spirited to Paris. Antelme's story of his experiences in Germany--his only book--indelibly marked an entire generation, "a work written without hatred, a work of boundless compassion such as that is to be found only in the great Russians."
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Robert Antelme
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Antelme did not receive a regular education.
Career
He became widely known for his autobiographical novel "The Human Race" ("L'espèce humaine", 1947) about the experience of imprisonment, which also contains arguments about the phenomenon of violence, the limits of morality and humanity in extreme conditions, the psychology of executioners and prisoners. The autobiography, which contains valuable information about the Holocaust, caused a wide public response and controversy, had a significant impact on the tradition of Western "military" prose and the philosophy of existentialism.
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The Human Race
(Arrested by the Gestapo and deported to Dachau, Robert An...)
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The Human Race
Politics
His political career did not last long as he resigned from the party upon learning of the existence of labor camps in the Soviet Union.
Membership
Antelme was a member of the French Communist Party.
Connections
He was married to Marguerite Duras.
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October 26, 1990 (aged 73) -
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Political Party
French Communist Party