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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 reports from the front are ever more unsettling and that the streams of refugees from the east are crossing through the town at ever shorter intervals. Until a January morning in 1945 when all of sudden sheets appear in the hallway stuffed full to bursting, in place of the Hitler picture on the wall...
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 reports from the front are ever more unsettling and that the streams of refugees from the east are crossing through the town at ever shorter intervals. Until a January morning in 1945 when all of sudden sheets appear in the hallway stuffed full to bursting, in place of the Hitler picture on the wall only a little yellow spot is to be seen, and, with a definitive gesture that the daughter will never be able to forget, her mother leaves her silver fox fur behind in the wardrobe.
Powerfully, touchingly, and with a tender sense of irony, Christa Wolf tells the tale of a family’s interior connections, of a fifteen-year-old girl’s path to maturity, of the trauma of flight. Written in 1971, this short story is the prelude to her later, sweeping autobiographical masterpiece Patterns of Childhood, a novel that continues to resonate today.
»As part of a comprehensive guide to Christa Wolf’s often controversial literary history, Eulogy provides a perfect starting point, an important introduction to her oeuvre, unraveling her complicated political and human positions from the beginning stages of her life.« Los Angeles Review of Books
»…this is great literature and indeed would remain so even if the language had not been so perfect.« Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung
»The sentences are slim and straightforward. The conflicts sharply drawn. At times, a bit of irony resounds. The self-critical glance is impressive […] and through this glance one gains a greater thoughtfulness and deeper reflection on present day references to time. And this is what ultimately determined the author’s renown.« Sächsische Zeitung
»Her obituary is a modest gem and one of those wonderful stories which proves that Christa Wolf is a writer that will stand the test of time.« Fuldaer Zeitung
»As part of a comprehensive guide to Christa Wolf’s often controversial literary history, Eulogy provides a perfect starting point, an important introduction to her oeuvre, unraveling her complicated political and human positions from the beginning stages of her life.« Los Angeles Review of Books
»…this is great literature and indeed would remain so even if the language had not been so perfect.« Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung
»The sentences are slim...
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...
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»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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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»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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