Indignez-Vous!

bilingual edition
Stephane Hessel (trans. Damion Searls)

‘Like a song you hum or a film you recommend to friends, Indignez-Vous! crystallises the spirit of the time. To buy it is a militant act, a gesture towards community and participation in a collective emotion.’

Libération

‘It is a good idea that the title of this work, Indignez-Vous! has been left untranslated, and that this English version is accompanied by the French original, if only to remind readers of the cultural context from which it has come to us ... It is a message that has come at the right time ... [and] I think Hessel's work is relevant to Australia.’

Matthew Lamb, The Australian

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‘The book urges the French, and everyone else, to recapture the wartime spirit of resistance to the Nazis by rejecting the "insolent, selfish" power of money and markets and by defending the social "values of modern democracy".’

Independent

Stéphane Hessel, Resistance fighter and concentration-camp survivor, tells the young of today that their lives and liberties are worth fighting for. Remembering the ideals for which he risked his life, while never forgetting the evils against which he struggled, the now 93-year-old writer and diplomat calls on all of us to take back the rights that have slowly slipped away since the Second World War ended.

With sales of this masterful polemic topping a million copies in France, and a bestseller in Germany, Italy, and Spain as well, Indignez-Vous! is proudly published as a unique bilingual edition in Australia and New Zealand by Scribe.

Libération

Matthew Lamb, The Australian

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Details

Format:Paperback

Size: 215mm × 140mm

Extent:64pp

ISBN (13):9781921844225

RRP:$9.99

Pub date:23 May 2011

Rights Held: ANZ

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AUTHOR

Stephane Hessel

Stephane Hessel, born in Germany in 1917, moved to France with his Jewish writer father and mother in 1924. He fought in the French army in 1940 and escaped from a POW camp to join de Gaulle’s Free French in London. On his clandestine return to organise the Resistance in France, he was captured, tortured, and sent to the Buchenwald and Dora concentration camps. He escaped death to work after the war on drafting the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, whose ideals he defends passionately to this day.

TRANSLATOR

Damion Searls

Damion Searls is a translator from German, Norwegian, French, and Dutch, and a writer in English. He has translated many of Europe’s greatest writers, including Proust, Rilke, Robert Walser, Ingeborg Bachmann, Thomas Bernhard, Kurt Schwitters, Peter Handke, Jon Fosse, and Nescio, edited a new abridged edition of Thoreau’s Journal, and produced a lost work of Melville’s.