Through literary works and public appearances, Edith Bruck, born 1932 in Hungary, has devoted her life to bearing witness to what she experienced in the Nazi concentration camps. In 1954 she settled in Rome and is today the most prolific writer of Holocaust narrative in Italian. The book is composed in two parts. "Lettera alla madre"—an imaginary dialogue between Bruck and her mother, who died in Auschwitz—probes the question of self-identity, the pain of loss and displacement, the power of language to help recover the past, and the ultimate impossibility of that recovery. "Tracce," a story of a journey without return, completes the diptych. Bruck's experimental fusion of memoir and fiction portrays the Holocaust from a female perspective and highlights the role of gender in the creation of memory.
| ISBN: | 9780873529358 |
| Publication date: | 30th January 2006 |
| Author: | Modern Language Association |
| Publisher: | Modern Language Association of America |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 278 pages |
| Series: | MLA Texts and Translations |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
Through literary works and public appearances, Edith Bruck, born 1932 in Hungary, has devoted her life to bearing witness to what she experienced in the Nazi concentration camps. In 1954 she settled in Rome and is today the most prolific writer of Holocaust narrative in Italian. The book is composed in two parts. "Lettera alla madre"—an imaginary dialogue between Bruck and her mother, who died in Auschwitz—probes the question of self-identity, the pain of loss and displacement, the power of language to help recover the past, and the ultimate impossibility of that recovery. "Tracce," a story of a journey without return, completes the diptych. Bruck's experimental fusion of memoir and fiction portrays the Holocaust from a female perspective and highlights the role of gender in the creation of memory.
Lettera Alla Madre features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction
Lettera Alla Madre is available in Paperback
Lettera Alla Madre was written by Modern Language Association and published by Modern Language Association of America
Lettera Alla Madre has 278 pages
Yes it is part of MLA Texts and Translations series
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