Trains of Thought: Paris to Omaha Beach, Memories of a Wartime Youth by Brombert, Victor

Trains of Thought: Paris to Omaha Beach, Memories of a Wartime Youth

In an unforgettable addition to the literature of memoir, one of America's preeminent literary scholars tells his...
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Author: Victor Brombert
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Trains of Thought: Paris to Omaha Beach, Memories of a Wartime Youth by Brombert, Victor

Trains of Thought: Paris to Omaha Beach, Memories of a Wartime Youth

Dhs. 100.14

Trains of Thought: Paris to Omaha Beach, Memories of a Wartime Youth

Dhs. 100.14
Author: Victor Brombert
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In an unforgettable addition to the literature of memoir, one of America's preeminent literary scholars tells his story of coming of age in France during the buildup to the Second World War. As a Jewish youth in France during the 1930s, Victor Brombert's heady explorations of sex and love were cut short by the rise of Nazi power and the Vichy Regime. His family narrowly escaped to New York, where Brombert joined the U.S. Army, only to return to Europe to fight on the beaches of Normandy and in the Battle of the Bulge. As he shuttles between the stations of his life, Brombert's narrative recaptures the textures of childhood, the horrors of war, and his own discovery of a sustaining passion for literature. By turns melancholy and erotic, his memoir is also a meditation on memory itself, and a Proustian re-creation of a lost time and place.

Author: Victor Brombert
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 03/09/2004
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.24w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9781400034031


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 03/07/2004 pg. 20

About the Author
Victor Brombert is the Henry Putnam Professor of Romance and Comparative Literature Emeritus at Princeton University and has served as chairman of its Council of Humanities. The author of numerous works of criticism, he lives in Princeton with his wife, Beth Archer.

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