My Gaze Is Turned Inward: Letters 1934-1943

by Gertrud Kolmar

"Event of the time are a bit like Impressionist paintings . . . which combine into a recognizable whole only when observed from a distance." --Gertrude Kolmar in a letter to her sister, October 22, 1939

So a picture of Gertrud Kolmar, a gifted Jewish writer struggling to sustain her art and family, emerges from these eloquent and allusive letters. Written in the stolen moments before her day as a forced laborer in a munitions factory began,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810118556
• ISBN13: 9780810118553
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.8"