by Stéphane Hessel · Ediciones Destino · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423345274
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«Mi baile con el siglo» is the memoir by Stéphane Hessel, published by Ediciones Destino in paperback (352 pages, in Spanish).
Stéphane Hessel traces his life: his youth in Paris, his time in the French Resistance, his deportation to Buchenwald, and his escape by swapping identities with a deceased prisoner. After the war, he helped draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and mediated in international conflicts. A first-hand account of the twentieth century.
Part of the Imago Mundi collection, volume 209. Translated by Joan Riambau Möller. Ediciones Destino published it on 5 October 2011. First edition, first printing.
For readers interested in memoirs, twentieth-century history, and biographies of politically committed figures.
Stéphane Frédéric Hessel was a French diplomat, ambassador, writer, concentration camp survivor, Resistance member and BCRA agent. Born German, he became a naturalised French citizen in 1939. He became an observer of the editing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. In 2011 he was named by Foreign Policy magazine in its list of top global thinkers. In later years his activism focused on economic inequalities, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and protection for the post–World War II social vision. His short book Time for Outrage! sold 4.5 million copies worldwide. Hessel and his book were linked and cited as an inspiration for the Spanish Indignados, the Arab Spring, the American Occupy Wall Street movement and other political movements.
