The Patagonian Hare: A Memoir by Claude Lanzmann Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux; 544 p.  Memoirs used to belong to the realm of the accomplished. In this sense, an essential question has always haunted the memoir i.e. why should I read about your life? We used to know the answer. After a singular life of historic importance a person felt obligated or entitled to write their life story. Now memoirs belong to the young, to the not yet accomplished. Whereas memoirs […]