Hélène Cixous, "Osnabrück Station to Jerusalem"
English | ISBN: 0823287629 | 2020 | 144 pages | PDF | 12 MB
English | ISBN: 0823287629 | 2020 | 144 pages | PDF | 12 MB
An inventive literary account of Cixous’s remarkable journey to her mother’s birthplace
Winner, French Voices Award for Excellence in Publication and Translation
For about eighty years, the Jonas family of Osnabrück were part of a small but vibrant Jewish community in this mid-size city of Lower Saxony. After the war, Osnabrück counted not a single Jew. Most had been deported and murdered in the camps, others emigrated if they could and if they managed to overcome their own inertia. It is this inertia and failure to escape that Hélène Cixous seeks to account for in
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