At the beginning of 1944, Raymond Guérin returned to Paris after spending forty-two months in captivity in a stalag in western Germany.
Until the end of the year, he continued to keep the diary he had started during the Phoney War.
In 1988, under the title
Le Temps de la sottise
, Le Dilettante published the first of nine notebooks of this living testimony.
It runs from October 1939 to June 1940. Éditions Finitude is now reissuing, in a single volume, the last notebook of Raymond Guérin's diary, with the preface that Jean-Paul Kauffmann wrote in 2005.
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A misunderstood masterpiece
It was by preparing a literary essay dedicated to the author of
When Comes the End
, which could have been crowned with the Goncourt Prize in 1941 if the Vichy authorities had not intervened to have a book by Henri Pourrat crowned more consistent with their policy of moral upsurge, that Jean-Paul Kauffmann read the thousand pages of Raymond Guérin's diary at the Jacques-Doucet library.
It seemed to him...
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