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Article: Castles Burning: A Child's Life in War.
- Article from:
- The Women's Review of Books
- Article date:
- June 1, 1997
- Author:
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I know a woman who grew up among Communist Partisans after her parents had both been killed in the Warsaw Ghetto. When she was still a small child she spent her days fighting, hiding and scrounging for the barest sustenance. She was in her thirties when I met her; naturally she was seeing an analyst. And she marveled that despite this grotesque childhood, despite the constant threat of death by starvation, gunfire, bombing and betrayal, the material which revealed itself in her analysis was utterly banal: her aunt had been unloving and critical, and she felt her parents had abandoned her.
That same sense of the extreme overwhelmed by the commonplace breathes both in ...
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Article: Childhood war memoir is touching and honest
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;
March 16, 1997 ;
625 words
... ... during the winter holiday season was "Castles Burning: A Child's Life in War" by Magda Denes (Norton, $24), who was born in 1934 ... adjective to describe the voice of young Magda Denes, it's tempting to reach for "spunky ...
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