My Language Is a Jealous Lover Bravi Poletto Bellesia Contuz Fazel Hardback

My Language Is a Jealous LoverAuthor(s): Adrin N. Bravi, Victoria Offredi Poletto, Giovanna Bellesia Contuzzi, Shirin Ramzanali Fazel\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9781978834590, 978-1978834590\nSynopsis\nMany great writers have been fluent in multiple languages but have never been able to escape their mother tongue. Yet if a native language feels like home, an adopted language sometimes offers a hospitality one cannot find elsewhere.\n My Language Is a Jealous Loverexplores the plights and successes of authors who lived and wrote in languages other than their mother tongue, from Samuel Beckett and Vladimir Nabokov to gota Kristf and Joseph Brodsky. Author Adrin N. Bravi weaves their stories in with his own experiences as an Argentinian-Italian, thinking and writing in the language of his new life while recalling that of his childhood. Bravi bears witness to the frustrations, the soul-searching, the.