Reappear in the light

Author: (American) Hein
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Publish Date: 2000-01-01
Features: In the book, I discovered a mysterious French blind man, Jacques Lusserand, whose voice we can hear from the ranks of the French Resistance and the terrifying Buchenwald concentration camp. For him, blindness is not darkness; darkness only comes when he feels afraid, angry, or ill. He lives in a world full of light, "I live in light every moment, even in my dreams." "I am a prisoner of light, destined to see." In the book, I met Eleanor Clark. She is a highly literary and talented poet, a writer with elegant prose. She can play tennis and ski, lives in Connecticut, and is a mother of two children. She writes novels, has won the National Book Award, and is fully devoted to the cultural field of her husband, Robert Penn Warren. She hates blindness deeply: "Who says you must accept and experience the encounter with blindness, even though you don’t particularly like it?" Her conclusion is: "We need to work through hooks, canes, or Trojan horses."