Rosa (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Cynthia Ozick
- First Published: 1983
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: 1977
- Setting: Miami
- Principal Characters: Rosa Lublin, Magda, Stella, Simon Persky
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: Memory, Jews or Jewish life, Hallucinations or illusions, Holocaust, Jewish, Concentration camps
- Locales: Miami, FL
The Story
From the very beginning of the story, Rosa Lublin is described as a madwoman; indeed, the world she inhabits seems composed of as much illusion as reality. After destroying her junk shop in Brooklyn, she has exiled herself to Miami, which she envisions as a sort of Hell of the elderly. She lives in a sordid hotel room with a disconnected phone and keeps as much to herself as possible. Her main form of communication is letter writing; yet her long-dead daughter Magda, to whom she pens lengthy and intimate thoughts in “excellent literary Polish,” seems to have more...
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