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The
Black Room at Longwood, Napoleon's Exile on
Saint Helena This book is part travelogue, part history, part meditation on confinement Delivered as a diary, it chronicles the author's journey to Saint Helena, moving back and forth between the contemporary island and the nineteenth-century island on which Napoleon languished. The issue at the heart of this book, and at the crux of captivity, is time. |
| The author of this book, Jean-Paul Kauffmann, was held captive for three years by Shiite Muslims in Beirut. So it is not surprising that he should be fascinated by the story of his country's most famous captive. Kauffmann's imprisonment is never discussed in The Black Room at Longwood, but it greatly informs the text." |
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