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My Language Is a Jealous Lover Other Voices of Italy
by [Bravi, Adrián N.]
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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.
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- Rutgers University Press Brand
- Jan 13, 2023 Pub Date:
- 9781978834583 ISBN-13:
- 1978834586 ISBN-10:
- 194.0 pages Paperback
- English Language
- 8 in * 0.6 in * 5 in Dimensions:
- 0 lb Weight:
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