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In the Context of His Times - Alfred Dreyfus as Lover, Intellectual, Poet and Jew (Hardcover, New)
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In the Context of His Times - Alfred Dreyfus as Lover, Intellectual, Poet and Jew (Hardcover, New)
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From the very moment Alfred Dreyfus was placed under arrest for
treason and espionage, his entire world was turned upside down, and
for the next five years he lived in what he called a
phantasmagoria. To keep himself sane, Dreyfus wrote letters to and
received letters from his wife Lucie and exercised his intellect
through reading the few books and magazines his censors allowed
him, writing essays on these and other texts he had read in the
past, and working out problems in mathematics, physics, and
chemistry. He practiced his English and created strange drawings
his prison wardens called architectural or kabbalistic signs. In
this volume, Norman Simms explores how Dreyfus kept himself from
exploding into madness by reading his essays carefully, placing
them in the context of his century, and extrapolating from them the
hidden recesses of the Jewish Alsatian background he shared with
the Dreyfus family and Lucie Hadamard.
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