Marina Jarre: Into Latvia’s Past, and Her Own
Latvian-Italian novelist Marina Jarre tires of people calling her Lithuanian. She has strong sense of heritage and powerful memories of her 1920s Jewish childhood in Riga, which she wrote about in an highly acclaimed 2004 reminiscence. Her newest novel is about Valdese life in the time of the House of Savoy. She deplores nationalism, is offended that Latvia has forgotten its years of Nazi collaboration, and thinks computers and new media are bad for the eyes.
Latvian-Italian novelist Marina Jarre tires of people calling her Lithuanian. She has strong sense of heritage and powerful memories of her 1920s Jewish childhood in Riga, which she wrote about in an highly acclaimed 2004 reminiscence. Her newest novel is about Valdese life in the time of the House of Savoy. She deplores nationalism, is offended that Latvia has forgotten its years of Nazi collaboration, and thinks computers and new media are bad for the eyes.
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