Available in English for the first time, Joaquim Amat-Piniella's
searing Catalan novel, "K.L. Reich," is a central work of
testimonial literature of the Nazi concentration camps. Begun
immediately after Amat-Piniella's liberation in 1945, the book is
based on his own four-year internment at Mauthausen.
"When the war is over, remember all this. Remember me," implores
one of the book's characters on his deathbed, and it is this call
to bear witness that Amat-Piniella takes up in his account of the
Spanish Republican fighters who were exiled in France at the end of
the Spanish Civil War in 1939 and soon swept up into the German
concentration camp system. As an already organized anti-fascist
army, they played an important role as a nucleus of resistance
within the camps, and their story is little known to
English-language readers.
Because of the length of his internment, his decision to write
his book as fiction, and his staggering powers of observation and
recollection, Amat-Piniella's portrayal of life in the camps is
unmatched in scope and detail. It is also a compelling study of
three powerful ideological movements at work at the time:
anarchism, communism, and fascism, all within the desperate and
brutal world of the camps.
"My book does not seek to deepen wounds or differences, but to
unite people before cruelty," said Amat-Piniella. This is an
essential text as we ponder the twentieth century and its meaning
to us today. This edition includes a new introduction, annotations,
and a translators' note.
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