Deviation by Luce d’Eramo review – the woman who entered Dachau by choice

This strange, compelling autobiographical novel, first published in 1979, explores an unfamiliar aspect of the Third Reich

A woman, emaciated and filthy, worms her way beneath barbed wire that may be electrified. We know this scene: we’ve watched or read it scores of times. In Luce d’Eramo’s variation, the woman beneath the fence is not trying to escape from a Nazi prison camp. She is trying to get in.

D’Eramo died in 2001. Deviation, her autobiographical novel, first published in Italy in 1979, covers her experiences between the summer of 1944, when she went voluntarily to join the slave labourers in the IG Farben factory in Mainz, and late 1945 when, paralysed from the waist down, she returned to Italy.

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from Culture | The Guardian http://bit.ly/2sYp0wy