Lettera Alla Madre by Modern Language Association PAPERBACK 9780873529358

Lettera Alla MadreAuthor(s): Modern Language Association\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Modern Language Association of America, United States\nImprint: Modern Language Association of America\nISBN-13: 9780873529358, 978-0873529358\nSynopsis\nThrough 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 Auschwitzprobes 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 h.