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* Read ! Angel of Oblivion by Maja Haderlap ↠ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Angel of Oblivion As an adult, the narrator becomes politicised and openly criticises the way in which Austria deals with the war and its own Nazi past. And interwoven with this is compelling reflection on storytelling: the narrator hoping to rid herself of the emotional burden of her past and to tell stories on behalf of those who cannot.. All the locals are scarred by the war. The narrator begins to notice the frequent suicides and violent deaths in her home region, and she develops an eye for how the Slovenian
| Title | : | Angel of Oblivion |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.87 (605 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0914671464 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 250 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-16 |
| Language | : | English |
An Exquisitely Poetic and Poignant Remembrance of a Tragic Past A memorable fusion of memoir and fiction, in a superb English translation from American translator Tess Lewis retaining the lyrical, poetic prose in the original German, “Angel of Oblivion” is an extraordinary, quite notable, fictional testament to wartime memory, worthy of comparison with such old and new classics as Stephen Crane’s “The Red Badge of Courage” , Erich Ma
Inspired by the experiences of Haderlap’s family and other Carinthian Slovenes (the Slovenian-speaking minority in southern Austria), Angel of Oblivion offers a compelling character study and shines a necessary light on a small enclave and less-well known chapter of 20th-century European historyTess Lewis has done a fine job of translating Haderlap’s lucid and lyrical prose." — The National (UAE)"Angel of Oblivion is a continuous, plunging attempt to express the dis
Haderlap writes poetry, prose and essays in both Slovenian and German. She is an Advisory Editor of The Hudson Review and writes essays on European literature for numerous literary journals. Between years 1992 and 2007 she worked as drama supervisor at the Klagenfurt City Theatre and was editor for the Carinthian Slovene minority literary magazine Mladje. She has been awarded translation grants from PEN Am
As an adult, the narrator becomes politicised and openly criticises the way in which Austria deals with the war and its own Nazi past. And interwoven with this is compelling reflection on storytelling: the narrator hoping to rid herself of the emotional burden of her past and to tell stories on behalf of those who cannot.. All the locals are scarred by the war. The narrator begins to notice the frequent suicides and violent deaths in her home region, and she develops an eye for how the Slovenians are treated by the majority of German-speaking Austrians. Through conversations at family gatherings and long nights talking to her grandmother, she learns that her father was arrested by the Austrian police and tortured - at the age of ten - to extract information on the whereabouts of his father. Hade
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