My Language Is a Jealous Lover

By Adrian Bravi and Adrián N. Bravi

Book Overview

Many 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.

My Language Is a Jealous Lover explores 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 Krist?f and Joseph Brodsky. Author Adri?n 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 pain, and the joys of embracing another language.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978834586
• ISBN13: 9781978834583
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher