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Parting from Phantoms is a window into the soul of the most prominent writer of the German Democratic Republic and its most famous export, Christa Wolf. The essays, diary entries, and letters in this book document four agonizing years in Wolf's personal history and paint a vivid portrait of the cultural and political situation in the former German Democratic Republic. This collection stands as an important testimony to the personal and cultural costs of German reunification. "The works in this book constitute an essential document of the history of reunified Germany, and this alone recommends it to scholars and those interested in current European events."— Publishers Weekly "Christa Wolf was arguably the most influential writer of a nation that no longer exists. . . . Parting from Phantoms traces the fever chart of her anguish. . . . In some ways, the rawness of the present volume is its greatest contribution, and its bona fides—testifying to the human cost of deception and self-deception."—Todd Gitlin, Nation "A thrilling display of ideological soul-searching."—Ilan Stavans, Newsday, Favorite Books of 1997

Table of Contents:
Translator's Foreword Self-Indictment The Language of the Turning Point Momentary Interruption A German You Can Contradict: Hans Mayer Whatever Happened to Your Smile? Wasteland Berlin 1990 Rummelplatz, the Eleventh Plenum of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party, 1965: A Report from Memory Two Letters: I. To an Academy Two Letters: II. To Wolfgang Thierse "The Truth of Our Tongues": The Stories of Grace Paley Woserin, Friday, September 27, 1991 Cancer and Society The Leftover Baggage of German History: Correspondence with Jurgen Habermas Trial by Nail On the Road to Tabou: Paul Parin Clinical Findings The Multiple Being Inside Us: Correspondence with Efim Etkind Mood Fit Caught Talking: Otl Aicher The Faces of Anna Seghers: A Picture Book Santa Monica, Sunday, September 27, 1992 "Free, Ordered, Inconsolable": To Heinrich Boll on the Occasion of His Seventy-Fifth Birthday Hours of Weakness, Hours of Strength: Correspondence with Gunter Grass One's Own Contradictory Life: Volker and Anne Braun to Christa Wolf Reply to a Letter from Volker Braun Berlin, Monday, September 17, 1993 Insisting on Myself: Christa Wolf in Conversation with Gunter Gaus The Symbols of Nuria Quevedo Parting from Phantoms: On Germany Index

About the Author :
Christa Wolf's (1929-2011) other works include the ground-breaking Cassandra, Patterns of Childhood and The Quest for Christa T. She has been awarded many prizes, among them the Büchner Prize of the German Academy of Language and Poetry the Austrian State Prize for European Literature and the Geschwister Scholl Prize of the city of Munich.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780226904962
  • Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press
  • Height: 22 mm
  • No of Pages: 323
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 539 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0226904962
  • Publisher Date: 01 Oct 1997
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Selected Writings, 1990-1994
  • Width: 15 mm


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