The Letters that Never Came is an autobiographical novel in three parts. Part I is a rich evocation of life in a working-class neighborhood in Montevideo, Uruguay, in the mid-1930s, as seen through the eyes of Moishe, the child of Polish-Jewish immigrants. In what is a daily routine, Moishe's father waits for the postman at the window, always hoping for news of his family from the Old Country. Don Isaac's relatives are prisoners of the Nazis, so all he can read Moishe and his mother is letters from before. Interspersed among the child narrator's reminiscences are the letters those relatives might have written, bearing witness to their suffering. Letters that never came.
In Part II, we find Moishe in the dungeons of the military junta that governed his country through the 1970s and part of the 1980s. Held in isolation, tortured and starving, he takes refuge in the world of his imagination, composing another letter that never came--a letter to his father that embodies his own quest for identity--while his parents, penniless, are evicted from their house and stigmatized as the mother and father of a "subversive."
Part III of Rosencof's text is largely a meditation on the redemptive power of the word, real and imagined. This poignant, humane work, as Uruguayan and Jewish as it is universal, links the cruelty of the Holocaust to that of the Uruguayan military and the resistance of Hitler's victims to his own.
The Letters that Never Came was originally published in Spanish in 2000 in Uruguay.

The Letters That Never Came (Jewish Latin America)

Biographies & Memoirs

ROSENCOF, MAURICIO

Arts & Literature

University of New Mexico Press

Originally published in Spanish in 2000 and first appearing in English in 2004, The Letters that Never Came is an autobiographical novel in three parts that reflects Rosencof’s life growing up in 1930s Uruguay as the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants and, later, his twelve-year imprisonment during the military dictatorship his country suffered. Part I is a rich evocation of life in Montevideo in the mid-1930s as seen through the eyes of young Moishe. Every day, Moishe's father waits for the postman, hoping for news of his family, who are prisoners of the Nazis. Interspersed among Moishe’s reminiscences are the letters those relatives might have written―but never came. In Part II, Moishe is imprisoned in the dungeons of the military junta that governed Uruguay in the 1970s and 1980s. Tortured and starving, he takes refuge in the world of his imagination, composing another letter that never came―a letter to his father that embodies his own quest for identity. Part III is largely a meditation on the redemptive power of the word, real and imagined. This poignant, humane work, as Uruguayan and Jewish as it is universal, links the cruelty of the Holocaust to that of the Uruguayan military and the resistance of Hitler's victims to his own.

The Letters That Never Came (The Americas)

Literature & Fiction

United States

Texas Tech University Press

LAS CARTAS QUE NO LLEGARON

Alcala Grupo Editorial

En América Latina, literatura y compromiso han ido tradicionalmente de la mano. Mauricio Rosencof El Ruso y Eleuterio Fernández Huidobro El Ñato, los autores de uno de los relatos de tortura más estremecedores que se conocen, y sus compañeros tupamaros, como José Pepe Mujica, Jorge Zabalza o Raúl Sendic, son otro ejemplo de ello, y su testimonio militante toma la forma de libro excepcional difundido ya por todo el mundo, incluso en forma de película. En su presentación, Eduardo Galeano nos dice que esta obra celebra la victoria de la palabra humana. Los protagonistas de estos testimonios de tortura, cárcel y sufrimiento consiguieron comunicarse a través de los muros, a golpe de nudillo, transmitiéndose mensajes, poemas y esperanzas, que ahora recogen en este libro. Esta experiencia representa, a su vez, la astucia, la dignidad, el alma cimarrona de una gran generación del Cono Sur americano que fue segada por las dictaduras militares.

Memorias del calabozo

Politics & Social Sciences

Fernández Huidobro, Eleuterio

Social Sciences

Txalaparta, S.L.

Madrid. 23 cm. 148 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Alfaguara'. Mauricio Rosencof .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 84-204-5103-7

LAS CARTAS QUE NO LLEGARON (HISPANICA) (Spanish Edition)

Alfaguara

Mauricio Rosencof: De puño y letra. Antología

Genre Fiction

Las Cartas Que No Llegaron (Spanish Edition)

Penguin/Random House

El autor. preso por guerrillero tupamaro, escribió estos poemas en papel de armar cigarrilos y los hizo salir de la cárcel en el dobladillo de las camisas que iban a ser lavadas. Ilsutraciones : Martiniano Arce.

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Ediciones Colihue

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Contemporary

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