This article describes the genesis of 'Faded Letters', a novel that is rooted in real facts, notably, tracing the fate of Antonio Ascari, who was deported to Germany in 1944 as a forced labourer and died in Lublin in 1945, while fleeing from Germany with other Italian prisoners. The text is contextualised with reference to the literary genre of trauma / Holocaust fiction and also in relation to the recent historical reassessment of forced labour within the Nazi empire.
Maurizio Ascari (2014). Am I Doing the Right Thing?. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF LIFE WRITING, 3, 72-87 [10.5463/ejlw.3.117].
Am I Doing the Right Thing?
ASCARI, MAURIZIO
2014
Abstract
This article describes the genesis of 'Faded Letters', a novel that is rooted in real facts, notably, tracing the fate of Antonio Ascari, who was deported to Germany in 1944 as a forced labourer and died in Lublin in 1945, while fleeing from Germany with other Italian prisoners. The text is contextualised with reference to the literary genre of trauma / Holocaust fiction and also in relation to the recent historical reassessment of forced labour within the Nazi empire.File in questo prodotto:
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