title: Viola Sachs
text: # Viola Sachs
  
  Viola Sachs (20 September 1929 – 26 June 2020) was a Professor of American Literature at "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:
  
  * Sachs, Ignacy (2008). La troisième rive. Paris: Éditions Bourin. ISBN 978-2-84941-072-1.
  