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Child of Our Time, by Michel del Castillo. A childhood in Europe's concentration camps recalled with heart-rending in tensity by a boy who lived through...
CHILD OF OUR TIME (281 pp.)-Michel del Castillo-Knopf...
...tears as merely another Cause. To get beneath this thick-skinned indifference, a book need not be a masterpiece, but it must speak the language of the heart so guilelessly as to make sophistication a mockery and callousness a crime. Such a book, and a small masterpiece, is Michel del Castillo's Child of Our Time...
...makes his boy-hero Tanguy one of the most endearing and poignant figures in recent fiction. Child of Our Time is both a grim and a grand commentary on the human condition. The first response to this book is elemental-to weep. The second response is to marvel that Michel del Castillo endured what he did, and that, having endured, he could still forgive so much that is eternally unforgivable...
Michael C. D. Macdonald '60 and Michel J. Strauss '59, are organizing the showing, which is tentatively entitled "The Scholar as Collector." Numerous items have already been pledged for exhibit, including works of Picasso, Klee, Roualt, and Durer...