A Memoir
Extraordinary... The Patagonian Hare is monstrously vain, a rodomontade of Lanzmann's triumphs, as well as cinemtaically vivid, bursting with memorable stories and endlessly fascinating * Sunday Telegraph * Full of passion and conviction, The Patagonian Hare is a remarkable account of an extraordinary life * Sunday Times * A breathless book. The zest for adventure is compelling, the writing fluent and inventive, the character sketches dazzling, the action sequences enthralling' * New Statesman *
Claude Lanzmann is an 84-year-old French journalist, political commentator and film director of the classic nine-and-a-half hour Holocaust documentary film Shoah (1985). Lanzmann is chief editor of the journal Les Temps Modernes, which was founded by Jean-Paul Sartre. His memoir, The Patagonian Hare, is his first book.