Jacques Lusseyran

Jacques Lusseyran ( born September 19, 1924 in Paris, † July 27, 1971 in Ancenis ) was a blind French author and high school teacher.

Life

Being an anthroposophic influenced parents' house, he went blind due to an accident at the age of 8 years. He went through school with excellent grades and studied literature. During the 2nd World War he was a member of the Resistance and founded the age of 17 own resistance group, the Volontaires de la liberté. Through a traitor, he fell into the hands of the Gestapo, and sat for half a year in solitary confinement at Fresnes before he was deported in 2000 another Frenchman in the Buchenwald concentration camp, where he survived until liberation by the Americans on April 11, 1945.

After the war, he met the Frenchman Georges Saint -Bonnet, author of the book La joie vous appartient to know and appreciate. Because of a law from the time of the Vichy regime, the invalidity forbade the civil service, the access to an ordinary university professor in France was denied him. He worked as a writer and lecturer at various institutions; most recently as a professor of literature in the U.S. and around Honolulu. He died on July 27, 1971 together with his third wife, Marie, in a car accident in Ancenis, near the village Juvardeil, where he had spent many holidays in the department of Maine -et -Loire, France.

Works

• The new-found light ( autobiography ), Stuttgart, 1966 ( also in paperback at dtv available )
• Life begins today, Stuttgart 1975
• Confession of a love, Stuttgart 1994
• Against the Pollution of the I, Stuttgart 1972
• Blindness - a new way of seeing the world. The blind man in society. 2 lectures, Stuttgart 1970