Bruck, Edith.

Le Sacre Nozze. [Signed / Inscribed] Romanzo.

First Edition. Milan, Longanesi & C, 1969. 13 x 19 cm. 273 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. In protective Mylar. Name of preowner on endpaper. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed and inscribed by Edith Bruck to american poet and translator Ruth Feldman.

Edith Bruck (pseudonym of Edith Steinschreiber) was born in 1932 in Tiszabèrcel, Hungary. In 1944 she was deported with her family to the concentration camps of Auschwitz, Dachau, Christianstadt, Landsberg and Bergen-Belsen, where she lost both her parents and a brother.
After the end of WWII, she briefly returned to Hungary, lived in Czechoslovakia, and then moved to Israel, where she stayed for three years, until she decided to join her sister in Argentina. On her way to South America, however, in 1954, while in Italy for a brief stop, she changed her plans and resolved to stay in Rome where she has lived ever since.
Her first attempt to write about her imprisonment in the concentration camps goes back to the first months after her liberation from Auschwitz, when she began writing a memoir, which, however, got lost during her multiple relocations. Once in Italy, she resumed her writing project and published her first book Chi ti ama così (1959; Who loves you like this [2001]), beginning a long and prolific literary career. In her search for an effective literary voice, Bruck adopted the Italian language, which, according to the author, provided her with an emotional detachment that enabled her to describe her experiences of the concentration camps. She has published more than thirteen novels and several books of poems. While most of her literary production has been devoted to Holocaust testimony, she also wrote two novels (Mio splendido disastro [1979] and L’amore offeso [2002]) about her tumultuous relationship with the poet Nelo Risi, and a third, Il silenzio degli amanti [1997], revolving around the themes of friendship and homosexual love. In the 1970s, Bruck was also involved in theatre. Her first play, Sulla Porta (1971) was staged in Milan at the Piccolo Teatro and in Rome at Teatro Quirinale. She herself has been translated into Hungarian as well as English, German, and other foreign languages. The winner of several literary prizes (Premio Rapallo [1989] for Lettera alla madre and Premio Viareggio [2010] for Quanta stella c’è nel cielo), Edith Bruck has gained national and international recognition for her writings in Holocaust testimony and, more generally, in contemporary Italian literature.

• Keywords: Italian Literature – Rare
• Language: Italiano
• Inventory Number: 42121AB

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