Adriana Bittel: Writing Jewish, Writing Woman

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Adriana Bittel: Writing Jewish, Writing Woman

Original language description

According to Radu Cosaşu, Adriana Bittel (born 31 mai 1946, Bucharest) is one of the few Jewish fiction authors still active in Romania.;Extremely discreet about her Jewish origins – one of the few proofs in this respect – is the obituary she wrote for Amelia Pavel, the mother of the Romania born literary theorists Toma Pavel, Bittel is one of the best short story authors in contemporary Romanian literature.;The present paper analyzes her best collections of short stories Întâlnire la Paris (Meeting in Paris), which was published in Bucharest, in 2001. The short stories focus on women’s lives during the Communist regimes. Ethnic indications relating the stories to the author’s Jewishness are rare but eloquent. They point to the survival of a minority group that suffered the imposition of totalitarianism and victimization as the “favourite” Other of the Romanian xenophobes. Bittel focuses on those everyday sacrifices that make life possible, the anonymity of female heroism, the few and petty joys of a life without any perspective in spite of ideological pretense that this is the best possible world. Still, we must not valorize Bittel’s fiction only as a sociological document about life under the Communist regime. On the contrary, in her short stories the grey of everyday life gets the irisations of rich psychological life. Without any exaggeration, Adrian Bittel belongs to that great family of women writers that includes Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Alice Munro, Elizabeth Strout and who are able to express the superb incompleteness of life and enjoy life in spite of everything.

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60204 - General literature studies

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Transylvanian Review, Supplement

ISSN

2067-1016

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Volume of the periodical

2016

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

RO - ROMANIA

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

279-286

UT code for WoS article

000400539000024

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