Editing Manès Sperber (section)

==Career==
After the end of the war, in 1945, he returned to Paris, and worked as a writer and as a senior editor at the Calmann-Lévy publishing house.

Manès Sperber was the author of a novel trilogy: ''Like a Tear in the Ocean: A Trilogy'', (1949–1955); of an autobiographical trilogy: ''All our Yesterdays'' (1974–1997), and numerous essays on philosophy, politics, literature, and psychology. Sperber received the  [[Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels]] in 1983. In awarding the prize, the association described Sperber as a "writer, who tracked the path of the ideological aberrations of the century, and freed himself from them entirely. Throughout his life he retained the independence of his own judgement, and incapable of indifference, summoned the courage, to get himself onto that non-existing bridge that only opens up in front of those who step out over the abyss."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels |title=Manès Sperber: Der Preisträger 1983 |url=http://www.friedenspreis-des-deutschen-buchhandels.de/445722/?aid=537266 |accessdate=14 January 2019}}</ref> The German writer [[Siegfried Lenz]] gave the speech highlighting Sperber's lifetime achievement.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lenz |first1=Siegfried |title=Von der Gegenwart des Vergangenen |url=https://www.friedenspreis-des-deutschen-buchhandels.de/sixcms/media.php/1290/1983_%20sperber.pdf |website=Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels |accessdate=14 January 2019}}</ref>

One of his closest friends was the novelist [[Constantine Fitzgibbon]], who translated much of his work into English.