The writer Felix Hartlaub died in obscurity at just 31, vanishing
from Berlin in 1945. He left behind a small oeuvre of private
writings from the Second World War: fragments and observations of
life from the midst of catastrophe that, with their evocative power
and precision, would make a permanent place for him in German
letters. Posted to Paris in 1940 to conduct archival research,
Hartlaub recorded his impressions of the unfamiliar city in
notebooks that document with unparalleled immediacy the daily
realities of occupation. With a painter's eye for detail, Hartlaub
writes of the bustle of civilians and soldiers in cafes, of
half-seen trysts during blackout hours and the sublime light of
Paris in spring. Appearing in English for the first time, Clouds
Over Paris is a unique testament to the persistence of ordinary
life through disaster.
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