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(The author in Berlin’s War Memorials..)   SVETLANA GEIER: The Woman Who Understood Dostoyevsky (Satis Shroff)   Svetlana Michailowna Iwanowa was born in 1923 in Kiew. She came to Germany in 1943 with her mother and was awarded an Alexander von Humbolt scholarship. She did German studies and Comparative Language Sciences at the University of [...]

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Creative Writing Critique (Satis Shroff): FIRE IN THE BLOOD Review: Irene Nemirovsky Fire in the Blood, Vintage Books, London 2008, 153 pages, 7,99 Sterling Pounds (ISBN: 978-0-099-51609-5)   Denise Epstein was 13 when her mother Irene Nemirovsky was deported to Auschwitz, where she eventually died in 1942. The daughter is now an octogenarian and was [...]

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This time Satis Shroff’s Zeitgeistlyrik deals with a female writer who was deported to Auschwitz where she died:Nemirovsky who has written Suite Francaise, David Golder, Le Bal (including Snow in Autumn),The Courilof Affair, All Our Worldly Goods is a brilliant story teller with an in-depth understanding of the hidden flaws and cruelties of the human [...]

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Creative Writing Critique (Satis Shroff): Fire in the Blood

Creative Writing Critique (Satis Shroff): FIRE IN THE BLOOD Review: Irene Nemirovsky Fire in the Blood, Vintage Books, London 2008, 153 pages, 7,99 Sterling Pounds (ISBN: 978-0-099-51609-5) Denise Epstein was 13 when her mother Irene Nemirovsky was deported to Auschwitz, where she eventually died in 1942. The daughter is now an octogenarian and was instrumental [...]

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