Il Pane Perduto Edith Bruck
- Plot Il Pane Perduto Edith Bruck
In order not to forget and not to make people forget, Edith Bruck, sixty years after her first book, flies her steps on the wings of eternal memory, barefoot and happy with little as in childhood, with wooden clogs for the four seasons , on the soil of Auschwitz in Poland and in Germany sown with concentration camps.
Miraculously surviving with the support of her older sister Judit, she begins the odyssey again. The attempt to live, but where, how, with whom?
Behind him burnt lives, including those of her parents, in front of him real and emotional rubble. The world appears foreign to her, the welcome and listening equal to zero, and she decides to flee to somewhere else.
What to do with one's own salvation?
Bruck talks about the feeling of alienation with respect to his own family members who have not experienced the concentration camp, the attempt to settle in Israel and there to invent a whole new life, the escapes, the tours around Europe following a body of dance composed of exiles, the landing in Italy and the direction of an aesthetic center frequented by the "Roma bene" of the fifties, finally the fundamental meeting with the life partner, the poet and director Nelo Risi, an artistic association and sentimental that will last over sixty years. Up to today, a series of invaluable reflections on the dangers of the current xenophobic wave, and a surprising final letter to God, in which Bruck shows his doubts, his hopes and his still intact desire to pass on without hesitation. to future generations a chapter of twentieth century history to be told again and again.
Proposed by Furio Colombo at the 2021 Strega Award with the following motivation:
"The latest book by Edith Bruck (The Lost Bread, The Ship of Theseus) combines in a single great work what the author has seen, lived, thought and written: a loving sweetness dries up other feelings (like the legitimate hatred of horror and executioners), because Edith is saved and kept alive by a very strong bond, a mixture of pride and affectionate pity for those who, like her, have been pushed into the horror gallery. In her visit to the depths of her memory, Edith retraces the miserable hell meticulously prepared by her tormentors (who have returned as in a nightmare), victims of a loneliness that feeds on the dead. But life is too strong and the instinct, still a child, to jump forward is too great. And when, in reality as in this crystal clear story, life and death, destruction and future split, Edith has already jumped on the slab of life. And here the book becomes a story that you have to read to the last page, of history, of life, of love. "
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