The Patagonian Hare

So begins Claude Lanzmann’s remarkable memoir of his life. As writer. Thinker. Film director (most notably of his crucial masterpiece Shoah) and witness to the twentieth century. Born in Paris in 1925, Lanzmann’s first encounter with radicalism was as part of the Resistance during the Nazi occupation. He and his father were soldiers of the underground until the end of the war, smuggling arms and making raids on the German army.