Intervista a Edith Bruck, di Valentina Ruggeri

Laboratoire Italien

关键词: Bruck (Edith);    Holocaust;    testimony;    memory;    women’s writing;    Levi (Primo);   

DOI  :  10.4000/laboratoireitalien.4731

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This interview aims to highlight some seldom considered aspects of Edith Bruck, a well-known writer who also experienced the Holocaust first hand. In her books and screenplays for TV and cinema, she has written on subjects ranging from the distress and difficulties of the postwar period to the ills of contemporary life. The discussion, which brings to light her inexhaustible hope in spite of her challenging experiences, springs from observations on Edith Bruck’s autobiographical works, which recount the afflictions suffered in her life: her deportation and abuses in the Lager; the refusal by people who did not experience Nazi atrocities to hear of what happened in the camps; the constant dialogues in her head with her mother who died in Auschwitz, along with the effort to escape her ever-present influence; and the gradual farewell to her Jewish faith and family traditions. Beyond the figure of the witness, what the interview reveals more broadly is the journey of a woman who has rebuilt herself through contact with other cultures. There are also many references to her companion, Nelo Risi. The interview gives us the opportunity to hear Edith Bruck’s thoughts on religious faith, freedom of speech, the wars that devastate the world (with special emphasis on Israel), as well as episodes of violence and racism in our time.

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