Frau an der Front: Ein Bericht

Polcz, Alaine

Suhrkamp Verlag AG

A bright but naïve young woman marries an egotistical man of letters. The war separates them, and Alaine spends months in turmoil, first imprisoned by the Germans, then a victim of the Russians. Her husband is presumed dead, but she presses on in this autobiographical novel about men’s violence against women. And yet there’s beauty in these pages, and words of hope amid the worst suffering. Una mujer en el frente was first published in 1991, in the midst of Russia’s political transition, and broke the decades-long silence about the wartime injustices suffered by hundreds of thousands of women at the hands of Russian soldiers.

Una mujer en el frente (Largo recorrido) (Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Editorial Periferica

<p>Before the publication of this book, Alaine Polcz was widely recognized as a psychologist ministering to the needs of disturbed and incurably ill children and their families, as the author of numerous articles and several books on thanatology, and as the founder of the hospice movement in Hungary. The autobiographic account of the experiences of a woman, then 19-20, in the closing months of the Second World War. When it was first published, in 1991, the book was a revelation of past horrors in Hungary which, until then, had lingered on in the farthest reaches of the national memory as rumor and suspicion about the violent acts committed against women during a time of chaos, havoc, and savagery. The literary world quickly recognized the merits of this book: It was highly praised by Hungarian reviewers, awarded prizes, and has already been translated into French, Rumanian, Slovenian, and Serbian.</p>

One Woman in the War: Hungary 1944-1945

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Central European University Press

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