My Language Is a Jealous Lover (Other Voices of Italy)

By: Adrián N. Bravi

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Synopsis: Many great writers have been fluent in multiple languages but have never been able to escape their mother tongue. Yet if a native language feels like home, an adopted language sometimes offers a hospitality one cannot find elsewhere. My Language Is a Jealous Lover explores the plights and successes of authors who lived and wrote in languages other than their mother tongue, from Samuel Beckett and Vladimir Nabokov to Ágota Kristóf and Joseph Brodsky. Author Adrián N. Bravi weaves their stories in with his own experiences as an Argentinian-Italian, thinking and writing in the language of his new life while recalling that of his childhood. Bravi bears witness to the frustrations, the soul-searching, the pain, and the joys of embracing another language.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781978834606
Related ISBNs:: 9781978834583, 9781978834590
Publisher:: Rutgers University Press
Date of Addition:: 01/13/23
Copyrighted By:: Victoria Offredi
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts, Communication
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Foreword by:: Shirin Ramzanali Fazel
Translator:: Victoria Offredi Poletto
Translator:: Giovanna Bellesia Contuzzi