Letter to My Mother: An MLA Translation

by Edith Bruck

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873529367
• ISBN13: 9780873529365
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.4"