Jean-Robert Armogathe

From Budapest to Paris (1936–1957)

History & Biography

“Miklos Vetö’s life is a kind of puzzle: a Jewish childhood in pre-war Hungary, racist persecutions and family bereavements, studies during the Communist regime, conversion to Christianity, the wanderings of a foreign exile, major works in philosophy, teaching over three continents, family life in the haven of France . . . Bringing together the pieces of such a puzzle, this book provides an insight to a sympathetic figure who is passionately curious about the world of ideas and men, unified by a desire for knowledge which is a form of charity.”