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Nous Sans Patrie (Romans, Essais, Poesie, Documents)

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Les memoires d'Ursula Hirschmann (1913-1991), soeur de l'economiste politique Albert Hirschmann et epouse en seconde noce d'une figure majeure du federalisme europeen, Altiero Spinelli, constituent un temoignage essentiel de l'histoire politique du vieux continent au xxe siecle. Jeune femme engagee des sa prime jeunesse, elle quitte Berlin en 1933 pour la France puis l'Italie, ou elle fondera sa famille. La Republique de Weimar, la montee du nazisme, l'exil des militants anti-nazis et anti-fascistes a Paris au cours des annees 1930, le second conflit mondial et la guerre froide, la redecouverte d'un Berlin metamorphose apres 1945: tous ces moments font l'objet d'une meditation qui prend tour a tour les allures de la reverie melancolique ou, au contraire, de l'analyse politique la plus lucide. Au coeur de ce texte figurent l'interrogation lancinante sur l'etat de sans-patrie, les difficultes qui lui sont associees, mais aussi la liberte d'esprit qui en est inseparable. Un temoignage d'exception.

208 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

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An interesting insight into the Berlin of a free woman, with intellectual Jewish origins in the 1920s, as well as a clear snapshot of the antinazi fatal divisions within the resistance. This autobiographical excerpt depicts a woman who always remained critical and refused all sectarianism, while looking for her roots and cues across a Europe that would be torn apart and eventually plasted as a result of the collectively experienced horror. Hirschmann was the partner of Altiero Spinelli and Eugenio Colorni, and a leading European federalist.
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