Nicolas Carreau 12:04 p.m., June 06, 2022, modified at 12:04 p.m., June 06, 2022
Published 75 years ago, Anne Frank's "Diary" is one of the most famous works.
A precious document that traces a part of the history of the Shoah, it appears this week in a new edition from the Calmann-Lévy publishing house.
A look back at a timeless book that has left its mark on many generations.
The
Diary
of Anne Frank is back in bookstores this week, 75 years after its first publication.
The work is reborn through a reissue published by Calmann-Lévy, one of the oldest French publishing houses.
Published for the first time in 1947, the
Diary
of Anne Frank was initially printed in only 3,000 copies.
An unexpected success: since then, it has since exceeded 30 million copies sold.
At 13, Anne Frank wanted to become a journalist and writer.
Hidden with her family in the annex of a small apartment in Amsterdam, her parents give her a notebook.
She writes her diary, what goes through her head, her daily life, to her imaginary friend Kitty in the form of letters... An assiduous writing until August 1944, when she is arrested and then deported.
Anne Frank died in Bergen-Belsen in 1945.
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Multiple editions of Anne Frank's writings
Her father, Otto, the sole survivor of the family, offered his daughter's diary to publishers who published it under the title
L'Annex
.
But the translations follow one another and the book becomes the
Diary
of Anne Frank.
But not everyone has the same edition.
There are two versions of Anne Frank's writings: A and B. Then there is version C, edited by her father Otto.
Finally, there is the integral of all his transcriptions which is called version D - it is the one reissued by the Calmann-Lévy publishing house.