Dominique Desanti

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Dominique Desanti (born Anne Persky August 31, 1914 in Moscow , Russian Empire ; died April 8, 2011 in Paris ) was a French journalist and writer.

Life

Anne Persky fled Russia with her parents in 1918 and lived in Berlin until 1924 and then in Paris, where her father worked as a legal advisor. She attended the Lycée Molière. She began studying law and married the philosopher Jean-Toussaint Desanti (1914–2002) in 1937 , which gave her French citizenship. She worked as an insurance clerk and translated from different languages. During the time of the German occupation of France, she was a member of the Resistance and joined the Parti communiste français (PCF) in 1943 . Their parents were betrayed as Jews and deported by the Germans to the Auschwitz concentration camp , where they were murdered.

At the end of the war Desanti worked as a correspondent and reported on the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp . She worked for the communist party newspaper L'Humanité and reported on the Nuremberg trials . After the suppression of the Hungarian uprising in 1956, she left the PCF.

Desanti received the Prix Thérouanne of the Académie Française in 1972 for her historical study of the utopian socialists and in 1983 the Prix Biguet for her biography on Sacha Guitry .

Works (selection)

  • with Charles Haroche: atomic bomb or atomic peace? . Berlin: Dietz, 1951
  • La colombe vole sans visa . 1951
  • Ivory coast . Translation of Hans Carle. Lausanne: Rencontre, 1962
  • Marthe Hanau  : la banquière des années folles . Paris: Fayard, 1968
  • L'international communiste . Paris: Payot, 1970
  • Les Socialistes de l'Utopie . Paris: Payot, 1971. Prix Thérouanne
  • Un métier de chien . Novel. 1971
  • Flora Tristan  : La Femme révoltée . 1972
  • Les Staliniens: une experience politique, 1944-1956 . 1975
  • Personne ne se ressemble: roman . Paris: Flammarion, 1977
  • Drieu La Rochelle . You dandy au nazi . Paris: Flammarion, 1978
  • with Karin Müller: Sacha Guitry, itinéraire d'un joueur . Paris: Grasset, 1983. Prix Biguet
  • Sonia Delaunay , magique magicienne . Paris: Ramsay, 1988
  • Les Années passion . Novel. 1992
  • Ce que le siècle m'a dit. Mémoires . Plon, 1997
  • Robert Desnos : le roman d'une vie . Mercure de France, 1999
  • with Jean-Toussaint Desanti: La liberté nous aime encore . 2001
  • La Sainte et l'Incroyante . 2007
  • with Karin Müller: Les Yeux d'Elsa au siècle d'Aragon . Paris: Editions Guéna, 2010

literature

  • Mary Lawrence Test: Dominique Desanti: un hommage . Halifax, NS: Dept. of French, Dalhousie University, 2001
  • Steffen Radlmaier : The Nuremberg learning process: from war criminals and star reporters . Compiled and introduced by Steffen Radlmaier. Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn, 2001 ISBN 978-3-8218-4503-6
  • Anna Trespeuch: Dominique et Jean-Toussaint Desanti, une éthique à l'épreuve du vingtième siècle . Foreword by Pascal Ory . L'Harmattan, 2003
  • Michel Rybalka: Desanti, Dominique et Jean-Toussaint . In: François Noudelmann (Ed.): Dictionnaire Sartre. Paris: Champion, 2004, ISBN 2-7453-1083-6 , p. 127

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personal data
SURNAME Desanti, Dominique
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Persky, Anne (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 2011
Place of death Paris