The Secret Police Dossier of Herta Müller

The Secret Police Dossier of Herta Müller PDF Author: Valentina Glajar
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781800108844
Category : Authors, German
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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""Herta Müller should share her Nobel with the Securitate." This comment by a former officer in the Romanian secret police, or Securitate, was in reaction to hearing that Müller, a German writer originally from Romania, had won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. Communist Romania's infamous secret police was indeed a protagonist in Müller's work, though an undesired and dreaded one: most of her writings are deeply and explicitly anchored in Ceaușescu's Romania and her own traumatic experiences with the Securitate. Müller's file traces her surveillance from 1983 until after she emigrated to West Germany in 1987. She has written extensively in reaction to reading her file, but primarily addresses its gaps, begging the question what information the file does in fact contain"--

The Secret Police Dossier of Herta Müller

The Secret Police Dossier of Herta Müller PDF Author: Valentina Glajar
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781800108844
Category : Authors, German
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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""Herta Müller should share her Nobel with the Securitate." This comment by a former officer in the Romanian secret police, or Securitate, was in reaction to hearing that Müller, a German writer originally from Romania, had won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. Communist Romania's infamous secret police was indeed a protagonist in Müller's work, though an undesired and dreaded one: most of her writings are deeply and explicitly anchored in Ceaușescu's Romania and her own traumatic experiences with the Securitate. Müller's file traces her surveillance from 1983 until after she emigrated to West Germany in 1987. She has written extensively in reaction to reading her file, but primarily addresses its gaps, begging the question what information the file does in fact contain"--

The Secret Police Dossier of Herta Müller

The Secret Police Dossier of Herta Müller PDF Author: Valentina N. Glajar
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1640141537
Category : Authors, German
Languages : en
Pages : 295

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""Herta Müller should share her Nobel with the Securitate." This comment by a former officer in the Romanian secret police, or Securitate, was in reaction to hearing that Müller, a German writer originally from Romania, had won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. Communist Romania's infamous secret police was indeed a protagonist in Müller's work, though an undesired and dreaded one: most of her writings are deeply and explicitly anchored in Ceaușescu's Romania and her own traumatic experiences with the Securitate. Müller's file traces her surveillance from 1983 until after she emigrated to West Germany in 1987. She has written extensively in reaction to reading her file, but primarily addresses its gaps, begging the question what information the file does in fact contain"--

The Appointment

The Appointment PDF Author: Herta M. Ller
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312420543
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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From the winner of the IMPAC Award comes a fierce novel about a young Romanian woman's discovery of betrayal in the most intimate reaches of her life.

Herta Müller

Herta Müller PDF Author: Bettina Brandt
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496209303
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Two languages--German and Romanian--inform the novels, essays, and collage poetry of Nobel laureate Herta Müller. Describing her writing as "autofictional," Müller depicts the effects of violence, cruelty, and terror on her characters based on her own experiences in Communist Romania under the repressive Nicolae Ceau?escu regime. Herta Müller: Politics and Aesthetics explores Müller's writings from different literary, cultural, and historical perspectives. Part 1 features Müller's Nobel lecture, five new collage poems, and an interview with Ernest Wichner, a German-Romanian author who has traveled with her and sheds light on her writing. Parts 2 and 3, featuring essays by scholars from across Europe and the United States, address the political and poetical aspects of Müller's texts. Contributors discuss life under the Romanian Communist dictatorship while also stressing key elements of Müller's poetics, which promises both self-conscious formal experimentation and political intervention. One of the first books in English to thoroughly examine Müller's writing, this volume addresses audiences with an interest in dissident, exile, migration, experimental, and transnational literature.

CRISTINA & HER DOUBLE

CRISTINA & HER DOUBLE PDF Author: HERTA MULLER
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781846275715
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Wave of Terror

Wave of Terror PDF Author: Theodore Odrach
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1613732260
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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This novel is a major literary discovery, and Odrach is drawing favorable comparisons with such eminent writers as Chekhov and Solzhenitsyn. Odrach wrote in Ukrainian, while living an exile's life in Toronto. This remarkable book is a microcosm of Soviet history, and Odrach provides a first-hand account of events during the Stalinist era that newsreels never covered. It has special value as a sensitive and realistic portrait of the times, while capturing the internal drama of the characters with psychological concision. Odrach creates a powerful and moving picture, and manages to show what life was really like under the brutal dictatorship of Stalin, and brings cataclysmic events of history to a human scale.

Secret Police Files from the Eastern Bloc

Secret Police Files from the Eastern Bloc PDF Author: Valentina Glajar
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1571139265
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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New essays exploring the tension between the versions of the past in secret police files and the subjects' own personal memories-and creative workings-through-of events.

The Land of Green Plums

The Land of Green Plums PDF Author: Herta Müller
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810115972
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Mueller takes an unflinching look at the alienation and complexity of a rapidly changing Eastern Europe, focusing on a group of young friends in Ceaucescu's Romania.

Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe

Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe PDF Author: Valentina Glajar
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1640121986
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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During the Cold War, stories of espionage became popular on both sides of the Iron Curtain, capturing the imagination of readers and filmgoers alike as secret police quietly engaged in surveillance under the shroud of impenetrable secrecy. And curiously, in the post-Cold War period there are no signs of this enthusiasm diminishing. The opening of secret police archives in many Eastern European countries has provided the opportunity to excavate and narrate for the first time forgotten spy stories. Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe brings together a wide range of accounts compiled from the East German Stasi, the Romanian Securitate, and the Ukrainian KGB files. The stories are a complex amalgam of fact and fiction, history and imagination, past and present. These stories of collusion and complicity, betrayal and treason, right and wrong, and good and evil cast surprising new light on the question of Cold War certainties and divides.

Remembering Transitions

Remembering Transitions PDF Author: Ksenia Robbe
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311070790X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 307

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This volume offers critical perspectives on memories of political and socioeconomic ‘transitions’ that took place between the 1970s and 1990s across the globe and that inaugurated the end of the Cold War. The essays respond to a wealth of recent works of literature, film, theatre, and other media in different languages that rethink the transformations of those decades in light of present-day crises. The authors scrutinize the enduring silences produced by established frameworks of memory and time and explore the mnemonic practices that challenge these frameworks by positing radical ambivalence or by articulating new perspectives and subjectivities. As a whole, the volume contributes to current debates and theory-making in critical memory studies by reflecting on how the changing recollection of transitions constitutes a response to the crisis of memory and time regimes, and how remembering these times as crises renders visible continuities between this past and the present. It is a valuable resource for academics, students, practitioners, and general readers interested in exploring the dynamics of memory in post-authoritarian societies.