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The Illiterate

Name: The Illiterate
Brand: New Directions Publishing Corporation
SKU: 9780811234856
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Contributors:

?gota Krist?f, Nina Bogin (Translator)

Publisher:

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Biography & Autobiography

Book Subcategory:

Personal Memoirs

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Release Date:

2023-04-04

ISBN 13:

9780811234856

Weight:

0.14 lbs

Size:

7.26 x 4.61 x 0.20 inches

Pages:

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Narrated in a series of stark, brief vignettes, The Illiterate is Ágota Kristóf's memoir of her childhood, her escape from Hungary in 1956 with her husband and small child, her early years working in factories in Switzerland, and the writing of her first novel, The Notebook. Few writers can convey so much in so little space. Fierce yet almost pointedly flat and documentarian in tone, Kristóf portrays with a disturbing level of detail and directness an implacable message of loss: first, she is forced to learn Russian as a child (with the Soviet takeover of Hungary, Russian became obligatory at school); next, at age twenty-one, she finds herself required to learn French to survive: I have spoken French for more than thirty years, I have written in French for twenty years, but I still don't know it. I don't speak it without mistakes, and I can only write it with the help of dictionaries, which I frequently consult. It is for this reason that I also call the French language an enemy language. There is a further reason, the most serious of all: this language is killing my mother tongue.

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