Hypnos (The French List) Hardcover – September 15, 2014

…and a revealing glimpse into the mind and heart of a talented, educated and sensitive man caught but needing to help contribute to ending a nightmare with any means possible even though it could cost his life as well as the lives of his friends and family. Well worth the read.

The third translation of the most unusual war memoir yet. Fragmented, oblique, and powerful, this journal retains Char's integrity as a poet--his commitment to the aleatory, the surreal, and the symbolic--and yet conveys the immediacy of guerrilla warfare, the danger and thrill and glory of it all. I don't know of anything else like this book. It may not be for all readers--it is neither a history nor a conventional memoir--but it brings language, in all its raw power, to bear on the unbearable, and in the fewest words possible conveys what whole chapters of conventional history struggle to portray.