Name Viola Sachs | ||
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Books The game of creation, The Myth of America: Essays in the Structures of Literary Imagination | ||
Viola Sachs was a Professor of American Literature at "Université de Paris VIII, France".
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As a specialist of Herman Melville, she conducted research and studies for the decoding of Melville's master works. She created the Laboratory of Research on American "Imaginaire" (SIAM) in the early eighties at the University of Paris VIII (Département Anglo-Américain). Today, SIAM's research programs are continuing with the "Résonance Group" of the University of Paris VIII.
Her teachings brought also a new approach on:
Viola Sachs is also a specialist of Brazil, where she lived and studied after World War II. Ignacy Sachs, her husband published an autobiographical essay in which he narrates their trip from Poland to Brazil and India during the doom years of Nazism in Europe: