The Patagonian Hare by Claude Lanzmann
A Memoir

• All Critics: 18
• Positive: 12
• Negative: 6

• The Telegraph | 15 Mar 2012

  But his memoir is also – surprisingly and triumphantly – a childlike celebration of life

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• London Review of Books | 5 Apr 2012

  That a chronicler of the Holocaust could become a mystical champion of military force, an unswerving defender of Israel’s war against the Palestinian people and a skilled denier of its crimes, is a remarkable story, but you won’t find it in Lanzmann’s memoir.

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• Boston.com | 25 Mar 2012

  ...hefty, jagged, and eventually overpowering memoir

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• Publishers Weekly | 9 Apr 2012

  This captivating and inspiring memoir attests to the fact that Lanzmann unyieldingly remains an individual dedicated to telling stories that matter, including his own.

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• The Independent | 17 Feb 2012

  The Patagonian Hare is composed in a strange and elliptical fashion

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• The Nervous Breakdown | 21 Mar 2012

  ...it’s with some dismay that we learn that Lanzmann’s book had been dictated, leaving it more of a bravura cavalcade through the years than a more thoughtful and introspective return to a vital period of the author’s life.

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• Kirkus Reviews | 6 Feb 2012

  ...a beautifully written memoir driven by both the writer’s passion for living and his memories of lost friends.

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• The Spectator | 17 Mar 2012

  ...an engrossing and important commentary on one of the great documentaries of the 20th century.

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• The Telegraph | 6 Mar 2012

  The Patagonian Hare is monstrously vain...

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• New Statesman | 22 Mar 2012

  The zest for adventure is compelling, the writing... fluent and inventive... the character and topographical sketches dazzling, the action sequences enthralling.

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• Vol. 1 Brooklyn | 30 Mar 2012

  Lanzmann provides a heady whirlwind of well-crafted details that can often straddle the line between memoir and fascinating fiction.

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• The New Yorker | 19 Mar 2012

  Lanzmann sets forth the peculiar yet exemplary fund of life experience that made the film possible.

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• Huffington Post | 15 Mar 2012

  Rich in remembered detail, sprawling in scope, and fascinating in its accounts of a life whose significance was both thrust upon him and actively sought, The Patagonian Hare will easily find readers...

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• Joelle Diderich | 4 Apr 2012

  ...a rich historical tapestry... In a freewheeling literary style that defies chronological narration

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• The Jewish Week | 27 Mar 2012

  The result is engaging, charming, frequently drily witty, but also challenging, compelling and moving.

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• Carlin Romano | 11 Mar 2012

  The Patagonian Hare... [is] recounted here with a master storyteller's ability to make tumbling memories cohere.

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• The Guardian | 3 Mar 2012

  Lanzmann's book is written in a deeply satisfying style, as though he were unfolding his life as thoughts occurred to him over dinner.

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• The New York Times | 10 Aug 2012

  “The Patagonian Hare” is poetically intense in places...

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