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Zeit: Di., 10.05.2022, 18:30 Uhr
Ort: Book Shop Singer, Rabensteig 3, 1010 Wien
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Programm
- Vorstellung (in englischer Sprache) des Buches Marjorie Agosin und Samuel Shats Heschensohn: Braided memories | Memorias trenzadas, Tunbridge Wells 2020 (Web)
- Moderation von Erhard Stackl
- In Anwesenheit von Belén Sapag, Botschafterin der Republik Chile sowie des Chilenischen Kulturbeauftragten
Beschreibung
In this evocative and emotional work, the poet, novelist, and human rights activist Marjorie Agosin pays homage to her great-grandmother, Helena Broder. As a young woman, Helena Broder escaped Vienna to seek refuge in Chile, leaving shortly after the Night of Broken Glass in 1938 when the Nazi regime unleashed a campaign of violence, terror and destruction against the Jewish population. This book takes readers on Marjorie Agosin’s journey through time and space, and across thresholds between life, death and dreams, to discover Helena Broder’s lost voice. This is not a linear journey, but one that braids together the past, the present, and the future, allowing Marjorie Agosin to give Helena Broder, an exiled woman, a third home in the liminal space of memory and literature; a safe haven where she can be complete rather than fragmented, a place where her „exhausted suitcase“ can finally rest.
This touching collection of poems, in Marjorie Agosin’s native Spanish together with Alison Ridley’s delicate English translation, is accompanied by evocative images from the Chilean photographer Samuel Shats, as well as poignant memorabilia of Helena Broder herself.
Die Autor:innen
Marjorie Agosin, 1956 in Maryland geboren, ist Schriftstellerin, Poetin und Menschenrechtsaktivistin. Ihre Großeltern waren als österreichische und russische Jüd:innen nach Chile geflüchtet. In den 1970er Jahren Continue reading