Lost in Translation Eva Hoffman

Works

  • Lost in Translation: Life in a New Language (1989)
  • Exit into History: A Journey Through the New Eastern Europe (1993)
  • Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews (1997)
  • The Secret: A Fable for Our Time (2002)
  • After Such Knowledge: Memory, History and the Legacy of the Holocaust (2004)
  • Illuminations. A Novel (2008), US: Appassionata (2009)
  • Time: Big Ideas, Small Books (2009)
  • How to Be Bored (2016)
  • On Czeslaw Milosz (2023)

Fjellestad writes on Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language: [It] is, to the best of my knowledge, the first "postmodern" autobiography written in English by an emigre from a European Communist country." She also writes that in the memoir, "Hoffman re-visions and reconstructs her Polish self through her American identity, and re-examines her American subjectivity through the memory of her Polish selfhood."[6]

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