Against the Pollution of the I: On the Gifts of Blindness, the Power of Poetry, and the Urgency of Awareness

By Jacques Lusseyran

Book Overview

Despite being blinded as a child, Jacques Lusseyran went on to help form a key unit of the French Resistance -- and survive the Nazis' Buchenwald concentration camp. He wrote about these experiences in his inspiring memoir, And There Was Light . In this remarkable collection of essays, Lusseyran writes of how blindness enabled him to discover aspects of the world that he would not otherwise have known. In "Poetry in Buchenwald," he describes the unexpected nourishment he and his fellow prisoners found in poetry. In "What One Sees Without Eyes" he describes a divine inner light available to all. Just as Lusseyran transcended his most difficult experiences, his writings give triumphant voice to the human ability to see beyond sight and act with unexpected heroism.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1608683869
• ISBN13: 9781608683864
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: New World Library
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

To See with Inner Eyes

Jaques Lusseyran does it again-- he answers questions we hadn't even seen.

Beyond words. This book threw me into ecstasy!

Jacques Lusseyran writes with a love that you can feel permeating you as you read his words. My favorite essay in this collection of 6 was "Jeremy," the story of a blue collar saint in Buchenwald. I found myself crying and feeling wonderful at the same time. This writing defies description.