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The Pianist
de Wladyslaw Szpilman
Picador, 2003, 222 p.
On september 23, 1939, Wladyslaw Szpilman played Chopin's Nocturne in C-sharp Minor live on the radio as shells exploded outside- so loudly that he couldn't hear his piano. It was the last live music broadcast from Warsaw ; that day, a German bomb hit the station, and Polish Radio went off the air. Though he lost his entire family, Szpilman survived in hiding. In the end, his kife was saved by a German officer who heard him play the same Chopin nocturne on a piano found among the rubble. Written immediately after the war and suuppressed for decades, The Pianist is a stunning testament to astonishing human endurance and healing through compassion. Le 23 septembre 1939, Wladyslaw Szpilman jouait un Nocture de Chpin à la radio tandis que des bombes explosaient dehors si fort qu'il ne pouvait entendre son piano. Ce jour-là, une bombe allemande toucha la station de radio qui fut détruite. Bien qu'il perdît toute sa famille, Szpilman survécut en se cachant. Au bout du compte, il fut sauvé par un officier allemand qui l'avait entendu jouer ce même nocturne de Chopin sur un piano trouvé parmi les décombres...
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