Description
A masterpiece of humanism, Time Stood Still recounts Paul Cohen-Portheim's years of internment in England as an enemy alien during World War One. An artist and theatre designer, he at first viewed internment as a sort of holiday: "Should I bring my bathing things and evening dress?" he asked the policeman taking him prisoner. Though confined in a "gentleman's camp" near Wakefield, as Cohen-Portheim shows with grace, humour, and deep compassion, even under the best conditions, the simple act of being confined and placed in a sort of limbo was a form of torture: "Where there is no aim, no object, no sense, there is no time." Time Stood Still is a passionate but balanced argument against internment and its inherently dehumanizing effects.
"A civilian All Quiet on the Western Front" - New York Times
Author: Paul Cohen-Portheim
Publisher: Boiler House Press
Published: 11/30/2023
Pages: 276
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.75d
ISBN13: 9781915812049
ISBN10: 1915812046
BISAC Categories:
- History | Wars & Conflicts | World War I
- Biography & Autobiography | Jewish
- History | Europe | Great Britain | 20th Century
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