Robert Antelme
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Robert Antelme was a French writer. During the Second World War he was involved in the French Resistance
and deported.
In 1939 he married Marguerite Duras
. Their child died at birth in 1942. In the same year, Duras met Dionys Mascolo who became her lover.
Antelme was arrested and deported on 1 July 1944. He was at Buchenwald, then Gandersheim
. After the end of the war François Mitterrand
found Antelme in a terrible state while visiting the Dachau concentration camp and organised his return to Paris; Mitterrand later reported that he had almost not heard Antelme's soft-voiced call to him. Marguerite Duras looked after Antelme and wrote La Douleur
about his return. She divorced him soon after he regained his health, but they remained friends.
Antelme later wrote L'Espèce humaine (1947) depicting his experiences in the camps.
French Resistance
The French Resistance is the name used to denote the collection of French resistance movements that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and against the collaborationist Vichy régime during World War II...
and deported.
In 1939 he married Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Donnadieu, better known as Marguerite Duras was a French writer and film director.-Background:...
. Their child died at birth in 1942. In the same year, Duras met Dionys Mascolo who became her lover.
Antelme was arrested and deported on 1 July 1944. He was at Buchenwald, then Gandersheim
Bad Gandersheim
Bad Gandersheim is a town in southern Lower Saxony, Germany, located in the district of Northeim. , it had a population 10,572.Bad Gandersheim has many half-timbered houses and is located on the German Framework Road .- Geography :...
. After the end of the war François Mitterrand
François Mitterrand
François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand was the 21st President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra, serving from 1981 until 1995. He is the longest-serving President of France and, as leader of the Socialist Party, the only figure from the left so far elected President...
found Antelme in a terrible state while visiting the Dachau concentration camp and organised his return to Paris; Mitterrand later reported that he had almost not heard Antelme's soft-voiced call to him. Marguerite Duras looked after Antelme and wrote La Douleur
La Douleur
La Douleur is a controversial, semi-autobiographical work by Marguerite Duras published in 1985 but drawn from diaries she supposedly wrote during World War II. It is a collection of six texts recounting a mix of her experiences of the Nazi Occupation of France with fictional details...
about his return. She divorced him soon after he regained his health, but they remained friends.
Antelme later wrote L'Espèce humaine (1947) depicting his experiences in the camps.