ABSTRACT
Jacques Lusseyran became totally blind after an accident when he was eight years old. Nevertheless he developed a special sense of ‘total’ perception, including his intact sensory organs and his intuition. In this way, during the Second World War, he became one of the leaders of the French Resistance where he was responsible for editing an underground newspaper. After three years he was betrayed and sent to a concentration camp. There he survived pneumonia, starvation, torture and typhoid fever. He describes his life history in his book And There was Light (Lusseyran 1965), in which he writes:
When you asked me: ‘Tell me the story of your life’, at first I didn’t like it. But when you added: ‘I would like to hear why you love life so much’, I started to love the idea, because that’s the good subject.
