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Post by hollister on Dec 22, 2005 10:03:15 GMT -7
Forgive me if this is old hat ... but didn't someone here recommend Lost in Translation by Eva Hoffman? I am reading it now and enjoying it immensely. I would like to say thanks to whomever and maybe do a little discussion thingie.
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Post by forza on Dec 23, 2005 22:53:25 GMT -7
I have read it several years ago and enjoyed it too. For me it was one of these books you'd read in a day or two.  |
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Post by hollister on Mar 28, 2006 6:13:43 GMT -7
From Radio Polonia....
Lost in Translation
What's it like to leave your life behind? Ewa Hoffman is a Polish Jew who left Krakow with her parents as a child, to seek a new life in Canada. In this, her most highly acclaimed book, nothing to do with the later American movie, she looks back with nostalgia on her Polish years.
In English, words have not penetrated to those layers of my psyche from which a private conversation could proceed. This interval before sleep used to be the time when my mind became both receptive and alert, when images and words rose up to consciousness, reiterating what had happened during the day, adding the day's experiences to those already stored there, spinning out the thread of my personal story.
That’s a short passage from Lost in Translation – a life in a new language (1989) by Ewa Hoffman, one of the best-known autobiographical works to deal with memory, loss and the world as constructed by language.
Hear exerts of the book here by clicking on the listen icon..
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Post by rdywenur on Mar 28, 2006 15:43:54 GMT -7
Chris the first from Chris the 2nd.....I clicked but there is nothing to click.
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Post by hollister on Mar 28, 2006 15:56:38 GMT -7
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