Jacques Lusseyran

When Jacques Lusseyran was an eight-year-old Parisian schoolboy, he was blinded in an accident. He finished his schooling determined to participate in the world around him. In 1941, when he was seventeen, that world was Nazi-occupied France. Lusseyran formed a resistance group with fifty-two boys and used his heightened senses to recruit the best. Eventually, Lusseyran was arrested and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp in a transport of two thousand resistance fighters. He was one of only thirty from the transport to survive. His gripping story is one of the most powerful and insightful descriptions of living and thriving with blindness, or indeed any challenge, ever published.

The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II

And There Was Light

Dans ces trois conférences, Jacques Lusseyran parle des surprenantes découvertes qu'il a pu faire en devenant aveugle. Son attention, sa joie, son intérêt plein d'amour pour les choses et pour les gens, lui ont ouvert un nouvel accès au monde. Mais son livre est bien plus qu'un étonnant récit d'expériences. Il nous apprend à surmonter l'aspect illusoire et superficiel de notre monde visuel. Il nous éveille à ce germe, ô combien fragile et menacé, de notre propre moi, et nous donne le courage de former notre destin à partir de notre activité intérieure.

Réunit Un regard nouveau sur le monde ; L'aveugle dans la société ; Contre la pollution du moi ; La mort devient la vie

La lumière dans les ténèbres

Conversation amoureuse

Against the pollution of the I 

Selected as one of USA Today’s 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century, this astonishing autobiography tells the gripping, heroic story of the early life of Jacques Lusseyran, an inspiring individual who overcame the limitations of physical blindness by attending — literally — to the light within his own mind. Through faith in the connection between vivid inner sight and outer events, he became a leader in the French Resistance and survived the horrors at Buchenwald.

Autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran, Blind Hero of the French Resistance

And There was Light

Blinded at age eight, Lusseyran nevertheless became an important student leader in the French Resistance, was arrested by the Gestapo and survived imprisonment at Buchenwald. This spellbinding and inspirational memoir reveals to us his unique experience of blindness. For Lusseyran, becoming blind brought an extraordinary gift of "inner sight" reaching far beyond ordinary senses.

Y la luz se hizo

The book that helped inspire Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See An updated edition of this classic World War II memoir, chosen as one of the 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century, with a new photo insert and restored passages from the original French edition When Jacques Lusseyran was an eight-year-old Parisian schoolboy, he was blinded in an accident. He finished his schooling determined to participate in the world around him. In 1941, when he was seventeen, that world was Nazi-occupied France. Lusseyran formed a resistance group with fifty-two boys and used his heightened senses to recruit the best. Eventually, Lusseyran was arrested and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp in a transport of two thousand resistance fighters. He was one of only thirty from the transport to survive. His gripping story is one of the most powerful and insightful descriptions of living and thriving with blindness, or indeed any challenge, ever published.

Jacques Lusseyran

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