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Eva Figes' Writings
This book provides a general overview of the life and literary career of the prolific writer Eva Figes, placing her extensive production within the various literary movements that have shaped the last century, and drawing on the main features of her works and the different stages in her production. Having recourse to the tools provided by narratology and using the theoretical background of the disciplines of ethics, Holocaust and trauma studies, together with other related fields such as theories of artistic representation, identity questions concerning Jewishness, contemporary history and philosophy, it carries out a comprehensive analysis of Figes’s main works. The main starting hypothes...
Tales of Innocence and Experience
This captivating memoir explores the relationship between the author and her young granddaughter, whose questions about Figes's upbringing unwittingly opens a door into the author's privileged childhood in Germany. But when the Nazis rose to power, Figes and her family fled to England, leaving her own grandparents behind.
Light
A glimpse of one day in the life of Claude Monet.
Journey to Nowhere
A heartwrenching and controversial account of the post-war period and the creation of Israel.
Waking
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The Seven Ages
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Days
The woman cannot move. From her bed she watches the minutiae of the sparely furnished hospital room, through the monotonous repetition of days, apparently in total acceptance of her condition. She listens, thinks, remembers. Eva Figes exposes a relentless cycle of human failure, unfulfilled longings and inescapable responsibility. Through this individual tragedy, seen from a new and disturbing angle, Eva Figes probes the deepest trauma of a woman's psyche.
Sex and Subterfuge
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