Letter to my mother / Edith Bruck ; translated by Brenda Webster with Gabriella Romani ; introduced by Gabriella Romani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bruck, Edith.

Contributor:

Webster, Brenda S.

Romani, Gabriella.

Series:

Texts and translations. Translations 1079-2538 l ; 18.

Texts and translations. Translations, 1079-2538 l ; 18

Standardized Title:

Lettera alla madre. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Fiction.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Holocaust survivors--Fiction.

Holocaust survivors.

Women--Italy--Fiction.

Women.

Italy.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xxii, 250 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2006.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Works by Bruck xxv

Letter to My Mother

Letter to My Mother 3

Traces 129.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0873529367

9780873529365

OCLC:

72354171

Publisher Number:

9780873529365