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"Le Pain perdu
Reading-meeting with Edith Bruck
23.11.2021
Tuesday November 23, 2021, 7-8pm Edith Bruck will read extracts from her book “Le Pain perdu” (Éditions du sous-sol, 2021) in the Grand Salon of the Villa Médicis.
Reading of the texts in French followed by an exchange with the audience in Italian (simultaneous translation into French), in the presence of the book’s translator, René de Ceccatty.
Free event (limited seating, doors open at 6:30 p.m., event at 7:00 p.m.).
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“New words are needed, including to tell the story of Auschwitz, a new language, a language that hurts less than my mother tongue.”
In less than two hundred pages, vibrant with life, implacable lucidity and love, Edith Bruck looks back on her destiny: from her Hungarian childhood to her twilight years. It all begins in a small village, where the Jewish community to which her large family belonged was persecuted before being mowed down by the Nazi deportation. The author recounts her miraculous survival in several concentration camps and her difficult return to life in Hungary, Czechoslovakia and then Israel. She was only sixteen when she returned to the world of the living. She began an adventurous existence, marked by hopes, disillusionment, flashes of romance, artistic debuts in cabarets across Europe and the Orient, and finally, at the age of twenty-three, found refuge in Italy, feeling a duty to remember, like her friend Primo Levi.
“Pity, yes, towards anyone, hate never, that’s why I’m safe and sound, an orphan, free”.
Edith Bruck
Edith Bruck, née Steinschreiber, was born on May 3, 1931 in Tiszabercel, Hungary. From 1959 onwards, she dedicated several stories and poems to her deportation, in the Italian language she had adopted when she chose to live in Rome in 1954. Wife of poet and filmmaker Nelo Risi, she often evokes this passion in her novels. As a journalist, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, actress, filmmaker and playwright, she has multiplied her activities, without ever giving up on bearing witness to her experience, and without ever resorting to hatred.
Portrait of Edith Bruck: ©DR
