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David Rousset

ダヴィッド・ルーセ

Dabiddo Rūse

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1912-01-18 (Roanne, Loire, France)
Died
1997-12-13 age 85
Nationality
France
Languages
French

Career

Occupations
writer, political activist, politician
Active Years
1946-1997
Affiliations
Rassemblement démocratique révolutionnaire
Influenced
Jean-Paul Sartre

Awards

Prix Renaudot
1946
Work: L'Univers concentrationnaire
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

L'Univers concentrationnaire

1946 memoir

Account of experiences in Nazi concentration camps.

concentration campshuman resilience
Translations
  • A World Apart

Bibliography

  • The Other Kingdom
  • A World Apart
  • Legacy of the Bolshevik Revolution
  • The Crisis in the Soviet System

Style & Themes

Literary Style
direct and testimonial style
Recurring Motifs
concentration campscritique of totalitarianism

Legacy

Known as a concentration camp survivor and political activist who denounced Soviet labor camps. First to use 'Gulag' in French.

Trivia

  • First person to use the term 'Gulag' in French.
  • Survivor of Neuengamme and Buchenwald Nazi concentration camps.