Hope and History Claudel One Million Dead balances between

One Million Dead balances between impartiality and its author’s own attitude as it conducts the autopsy of a national tragedy which

the novel painstakingly plots the public and private elements which eventually exploded into war

five of which will feature in the Cluny Classics series: Father Malachy’s Miracle

is Associate Professor Emerita of French and Italian Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh

Hope and History Claudel One Million Dead balances betweenBy Josef Pieper Hope and History The future is our only end. This provocative selection from Pascals Penses reads as the epigraph to Josef Piepers 1967 Hope and History. The remark, in full, reads: The past and the present are our means; the future is our only end. With the philosophical precision and imaginative brilliance typical of all Piepers writings, Hope and History assesses the acutely urgent question of what precisely constitutes the meaning