
Loop
Jacques Roubaud(Author)
Dalkey Archive Press
Will be published approx. on 28. May 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
566 pages
978-1-56478-546-6 (ISBN)
Description
Kalniete's book is a moving and eloquent testimony to her family and to the Latvian nation--to their shared fate during more than fifty years of occupation. It is an indictment of the inhuman repression of both the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Above all, it is the story of human survival, and it has become the most-translated Latvian book in recent history.
Reviews / Votes
Kalniete, until recently an EU commissioner, tells a moving story woven from memories, letters and KGB files.'-Financial TimesMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Normal, IL
United States
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
771 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56478-546-6 (9781564785466)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Jacques Roubaud, born in 1932, has been a professor of mathematics at the University of Paris X Nanterre. He is one of the most accomplished members of the Oulipo, the workshop for experimental literature founded by Raymond Queneau and Francois Le Lionnais. He is the author of numerous books of prose, theatre and poetry. Jeff Fort has translated works by authors such as Jean Genet, Maurice Blanchot, and Jacques Derrida. He is currently a lecturer in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.