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An unsigned postcard arrives in the mail at Anne Berest's parents' house on January 6, 2003. On one side, an old image of the Palais Garnier Opera House of Paris is pictured; on the other side are the names of her mother's grandparents, Ephraïm and Emma, her aunt, Noémie, and uncle, Jacques, all of whom were deported to Auschwitz in 1942.
With Gabriële, the Berest sisters succeeded in bringing attention to their great-grandmother's often overlooked life and influence in the art world, specifically within the Dada movement. [4] Her novel La Carte Postale (The Postcard), was published in 2021 in French [5] and translated into English in 2023 by Tina Kover.
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The first half of the book, titled Envois (sendings), contains a series of love letters addressed by a travelling "salesman" to an unnamed loved one. The latter remembers, for example, "the day we bought that bed (the complications with the credit and the punch card in the store, and then one of those awful scenes between us)". [2]
"Greetings from Chicago, Illinois" large-letter postcard produced by Curt Teich The history of postcards is part of the cultural history of the United States. Especially after 1900, "the postcard was wildly successful both as correspondence and collectible" and thus postcards are valuable sources for cultural historians as both a form of epistolary literature and for the bank of cultural ...
Postcards document the natural landscape as well as the built environment—buildings, gardens, parks, cemeteries, and tourist sites. They provide snapshots of societies at a time when few newspapers carried images. [16] Postcards provided a way for the general public to keep in touch with their friends and family, and required little writing. [16]