Trains of Thought (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Victor Brombert
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1923-1946
- Setting: France, Spain, Germany, and America
- Principal Characters: Victor Brombert, Brombert’s father, Brombert’s mother, Nora Brombert, Dany Wolf
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: United States or Americans, France or French people, Murder or homicide, Twentieth century, Europe or Europeans, New York City, Exile or expatriates, World War II, Ethnic groups, Victims, Fear, Jews or Jewish life, War, Anti-Semitism, Trains, Soldiers, Nazism or Nazis, Holocaust, Jewish, Concentration camps, Genocide
- Locales: France, United States, Spain, Germany
The very title of this autobiography reveals Victor Brombert’s ability to play with words. It refers both to fleeting ideas that occurred to him as he was writing his memoirs of his youth, adolescence, and early adulthood and to the simple fact that he has always enjoyed traveling by train. The subtitle of his autobiography reminds his readers that he did not have citizenship in any country until he became an American citizen in 1943 as he was completing his military training in the U.S. Army. Just as trains go from one country to another, so also Victor Brombert had to travel...
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