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Text Acknowledgements
Please see notes and ‘Companions’ for further source information. Every effort has been made to credit the copyright owners of any material that appears within. The publishers will correct any omissions in subsequent editions if notified.
Extracts from At the Mind’s Limit by Jean Améry reproduced by kind permission of Indiana University Press.
Extracts from Letters On Life by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Ulrich Baer, published by Everyman Editions, Penguin Random House.
Extracts from ‘That the Science of Cartography is Limited’ by Eavan Boland taken from Collected Poems, published by Carcanet,
Quotations from Drowning by Bullets, a film by Philip Brooks and Alan Hayling, first broadcast on 13 July 1992.
Lyrics from ‘If You See Her, Say Hello’, ‘Masters of War’, ‘Ballad of a Thin Man’, ‘Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues’ and ‘My Back Pages’ by Bob Dylan, reproduced by kind permission of Special Rider.
Extracts from ‘Famine, a Sequence’ by Desmond Egan, in Famine (1998; 2012; 2018), published by Goldsmith Press Ltd, Newbridge.
Extracts taken from Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Freire, translated by Myra Ramos and published by Bloomsbury Continuum.
Extracts from ‘The Scar’ by John Hewitt are taken from Selected Poems, eds. Michael Longley and Frank Ormsby (Blackstaff Press, 2007), and reproduced by permission of Blackstaff Press on behalf of the Estate of John Hewitt.
Extracts from Nâzim Hikmet’s poetry taken from Beyond the Walls, translated by Talât Sait Halman, Richard McKane and Ruth Christie, and published by Anvil Press, an imprint of Carcanet.
Extracts from ‘La plegaria a un labrador’ by Victor Jara taken from His Hands Were Gentle, translated by Adrian Mitchell and published by Smokestack Books.
Extracts from ‘My Dark Fathers’ by Brendan Kennelly, taken from The Essential Brendan Kennelly, and reproduced by kind permission of Bloodaxe Books.
Extracts from The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide by Robert Jay Lifton, published by Basic Books.
‘You took away all the oceans and all the room’ by Osip Mandelstam, taken from Selected Poems, translated by Clarence Brown and W. S. Merwin, published by New York Review of Books Classics.
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Extracts from Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers by Filip Muller, reproduced by permission of Taylor and Francis Group Ltd.
Extract from ‘For Ken Saro-Wiwa’ by Ben Okri, reproduced by kind permission of the author.
Extracts from ‘My Sister’s Song’ by Yannis Ritsos, taken from Selected Poems 1935–1989, published by The Hellenic College Press.
Companions to I You We Them
In place of the traditional bibliography I would like to celebrate in particular eighteen companions to I You We Them. These are writers, critics, artists, activists and film-makers whose creativity has been inspirational over many years. All are artists and thinkers that you can build a lifelong relationship with – who are fearless in the risks they take, and are always trying to look beyond the limits of the world view they inherited. All have created astounding individual works, yet their lives reach beyond the span of their art, because their work is indivisible from their humanity.
Hannah Arendt
Jean Améry
Susan Griffin
Raul Hilberg
Derek Jarman
Jan Karski
Claude Lanzmann
Primo Levi
Sven Lindqvist
David Olusoga and Casper Erichsen
Arundhati Roy
Ken Saro-Wiwa
W. G. Sebald
Jorge Semprún
Gitta Sereny
George Steiner
Simone Weil
Jean Améry (1912–1978)
Writer and philosopher. Active in the anti-Nazi Resistance movement in Belgium in World War Two, he was captured in 1943, tortured, and later deported to Auschwitz (Buna-Monowitz, where Primo Levi was a fellow prisoner), Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen. In 1966 he published At the Mind’s Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities – one of the most remarkable meditations ever written on the meaning that lies behind the word ‘survival’. Reflecting on his own torture by the Gestapo he wrote: ‘Whoever was tortured, stays tortured. Torture is ineradicably burned into him, even when no clinical traces can be detected’. In the last decade of his life he published two other highly regarded works - On Aging and On Suicide: A Discourse on Voluntary Death. Primo Levi’s final collection of essays, The Drowned and the Saved, contains a compelling chapter ‘The Intellectual in Auschwitz’ which, centres on Améry’s life and thought, though Levi acknowledges that Améry’s view of humanity was ultimately bleaker than his own.