Italy (e/o)
A collection of Christa Wolf’s late essays, lectures and interviews, put together by the author herself
Includes many of previously unpublished texts
Speak, that I May See You – this Socratic imperative gives a sense of the goal Christa Wolf was striving for with her writing: to make her presence known, »to get to the roots of our existence«. In this collection she turns her attention to the works of fellow authors and visual artists. She writes about Dr. Faustus and Thomas Mann’s exile in Los Angeles, the setting for her 2010 novel City of Angels or: The Overcoat of Dr. Freud, translated...
Speak, that I May See You – this Socratic imperative gives a sense of the goal Christa Wolf was striving for with her writing: to make her presence known, »to get to the roots of our existence«. In this collection she turns her attention to the works of fellow authors and visual artists. She writes about Dr. Faustus and Thomas Mann’s exile in Los Angeles, the setting for her 2010 novel City of Angels or: The Overcoat of Dr. Freud, translated into 19 languages. She draws a loving portrait Uwe Johnson and militates for Günter Grass. She describes etchings made by Spanish artist Nuria Quevedo around the myth of Cassandra, the eponymous heroine of Christa Wolf’s celebrated 1983 novella; as well as Günther Uecker’s ash paintings inspired by Chernobyl, the starting point for her novella Accident: A Day’s News.
In the texts collected in this volume, a great author of our time weaves an intricate artistic dialogue at the centre of which her own best-selling works reveal themselves.
Christa Wolf, born in Landsberg/Warthe (Gorzów Wielkopolski) in 1929, passed away in Berlin in 2011. Her work has been honoured with numerous awards, including the Georg Büchner Prize, the Thomas Mann Prize and the Uwe Johnson Prize.
Christa Wolf, born in Landsberg/Warthe (Gorzów Wielkopolski) in 1929, passed away in Berlin in 2011. Her work has been honoured with...
»Dearest, dearest Christa, how nice that you remain here on this daft planet!«, Sarah Kirsch writes in the autumn of 1988 to her friend who has just recovered from a life-threatening illness. One...
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Random House Audio)
»Mail, mail, mail«. This cri de cœur, jotted down in the calendar underneath the date of Sunday, 4th of March 1990, is not unfounded: Christa Wolf was a tremendously productive correspondent. Her letters to relatives and friends, colleagues, editors, politicians and journalists provide a fascinating insight into her thoughts, her writing process and her social engagement. Whether she...
»Moscow! I had asked myself beforehand what the first thing to make an impression upon me might be.« So begin Christa Wolf’s writings about a city which she visited for the first time in 1957. In...
Russia (Text)
Charlotte, mother to the fifteen-year-old first person narrator of the novel, is the beloved center of the family, all commanding and outright. And yet, Charlotte has kept the obvious quiet: that...
English world rights (Seagull), Italy (Edizioni e/o)
After the overwhelming success of City of Angels now follows the eagerly awaited posthumous publication of the second half of Christa Wolf's diary project One Day a...
English world rights (Seagull), France (Seuil), Japan (Dogakusha)
In 1976, Christa Wolf published Patterns of Childhood, her major autobiographical book. It has since been translated into twenty languages. Thirty-five years later, her last...
English world rights (Seagull), Spanish world rights (Las migas también son pan), Brazilian Portuguese rights digital (Jaguatrica), France (Christian Bourgois), Italy (e/o), Catalan (Lleonard Muntaner), Estonia (Loomingu Raamatukogu), Serbia (Radni Sto), Slovenia (Modrijan)
It amounts to a veritable literary event: Christa Wolf’s completion of the major new novel on which she worked for more than ten years. City of Angels or The Overcoat of Dr....
English world rights (FSG), Spanish world rights (Alianza), Russia (AST), Arabic world rights (Al Kamel), France (Seuil), Italy (e/o), Netherlands (van Gennep), Sweden (Norstedts), Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), Korea (Marco Polo Press), Hungary (Kalligram), Bulgaria (Lettera), Romania (Univers), Lithuania (Mintis), Serbia (Albatros), Turkey (IS Kültür), Greece (Kastaniotis), Macedonia (Blesok), Albania (Santori), Azerbaijan (Alatoran), Israel (Hakibbutz Hameuchad)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Chinese simplex rights (People’s Literature Publishing House), Denmark (Vandkunsten)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Book Club (Der Club Bertelsmann)
Shortly after the collapse of Communism, Christa Wolf spent some time at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. Far away in the West, in a foreign world, she looks back at her life in the east...
Greece (Kastaniotis)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spain (Circula De Lectores), Italy (Edizioni E/O)
»In 1960, following an invitation from a Moscow newspaper asking her to describe one day, the twenty-seventh of September, ›as precisely as possible‹, Christa Wolf...
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English world rights (FSG), Spain (Las Migas de Pan), Arabic world rights (Al Karma), France (Stock), Italy (e/o), Sweden (Lind & Co.), Turkey (Is Kültür)
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English world rights (Ottawa University Press), Chinese complex rights (Chi Ming), Korea (Minumsa), Bengali (Jadavpur University Press)
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