Roth Reviews “The Patagonian Hare”
Lauren Rubenstein<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2012/05/02/roth-reviews-lanzmann-autobiography/"></div>Wesleyan President Michael S. Roth reviews a new memoir by renowned filmmaker Claude Lanzmann<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons below via filter on get_the_excerpt --><div class="at-below-post addthis_tool" data-url="http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2012/05/02/roth-reviews-lanzmann-autobiography/"></div><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt -->
Wesleyan President Michael S. Roth published a review of Claude Lanzmann’s new autobiography, “The Patagonian Hare: Memoir” in The Washington Post. He writes: “Successful memoirs usually require more than the usual amount of self-absorption, and sometimes an annoying, even comical dose of narcissism. ‘The Patagonian Hare‘ is full of Lanzmann’s cloying self-regard, but we accept it for the single reason that he created ‘Shoah,’ his 1985 documentary about the Nazi war against the Jews, one of the masterworks of cinema. A man who produces a great work of art that succeeds in deeply affecting our consciousness of the past and of the human condition deserves to be listened to. And so we listen to Lanzmann.”
Steve Scarpa
Andrew Chatfield
Mike Mavredakis