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Todesfuge (1944–45)
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Black milk of daybreak we drink it at evening we drink it at midday and morning we drink it at night we drink and we drink we shovel a grave in the air there you won’t lie too cramped A man lives in…

Contributor:

Paul Celan

Places:

Paris, France

Date:

1952

Subjects:

Holocaust, Fascism, Jewish identity, Death, Torture

Categories:

Literature, Poetry
Suite Française
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Madame Perrin told them that her son had died a hero’s death in Normandy as the Germans advanced; she had received permission to visit his grave. She complained at great length about the cost of this…

Contributor:

Irène Némirovsky

Places:

Paris, German Military Administration in Occupied France (Paris, France)

Date:

1942

Subjects:

War, Women, Parenthood, Marriage, Fascism

Categories:

Literature, Fiction