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9780873529365: Letter to My Mother (MLA Texts & Translations (Paperback)): An MLA Translation
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0873529367 ISBN 13: 9780873529365
Publisher: Modern Language Association of America, 2006

Synopsis

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. "Letter to My Mother"―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. "Traces," 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.

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About the Authors

Edith Bruck's publications include Chi ti ama così, Andremo in città, Le sacre nozze, L'attrice, and Specchi.



Brenda Webster's publications include After Auschwitz, Sins of the Mothers, Paradise Farm, The Beheading Game, and Vienna Triangle.



Gabriella Romani is an associate professor at Seton Hall University. Her research interests include late nineteenth-century Italian literature and culture.

From the Back Cover

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. “Letter to My Mother”—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. “Traces,” 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.

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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. Letter to My Mother 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. Traces, 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.

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Publisher
Modern Language Association of America
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0873529367
ISBN 13 
9780873529365
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
278