Susan Rubin Suleiman is C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France and Professor of Comparative Literature Emerita at Harvard University, USA. Her many books include Crises of Memory and the Second World War and the memoir Daughter of History: Traces of an Immigrant Girlhood. In 2018, she was awarded France’s highest decoration, the Légion d’Honneur.
Susan Suleiman’s book touched me deeply and it was interesting even for me. I was surprised by several connections that I had never thought of, but they are very true. * István Szabó *