Viola Sachs

Template:Short description Template:Refimprove Viola Sachs (20 September 1929 – 26 June 2020) was a Polish professor of American Literature at "Warsaw University" and "Université de Paris VIII, France".

Works

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:

• the influences of the Bible in American Literature,
• the important role of fraternities and sororities in most of American master works.

Viola Sachs was 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:

Bibliography

Brazilian works

Her Brazilian publications include:

See also

• Paris 8 University
• Herman Melville
• Ignacy Sachs

External links

• University of Paris VIII, France: Domaine Anglophone
• The New York Times: Voyaging far and wide in search of Melville, Herbert Mitgang