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.

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.

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.

Nadirs

Nadirs PDF Author: Herta M_ller
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803235836
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 135

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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.

Passport

Passport PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9786599858222
Category : Artists' books
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"This piece is part of a series of attempts to make sense of a place, of a culture, of a system. How can something so small as a passport be so defining of someone’s life experience? Is the commodification of nature still a symptom of a colonialist process? Using the format of a passport, I collected stickers from fruits and vegetables that I consumed in my first months in the US; I had recently gone through the process of having to apply for a visa. The stamp I got in my passport is the reason I can be here now. Eating and sleeping in a different land than the one where I was born and grew up in. Eating the fruits grown in a land much more like my own. We both -- me and the fruits -- traveled and crossed borders. I designed pages with mountains and palm trees, reflecting the landscape I now see every day. I bound these pages together. On the [first page], one sentence from Frantz Fanon is split in two: “the settler’s town is a well-fed town / its belly is always full of good things.”"--from publisher

The Fox Was Ever the Hunter

The Fox Was Ever the Hunter PDF Author: Herta Müller
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 0805096027
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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An early masterpiece from the winner of the Nobel Prize hailed as the laureate of life under totalitarianism Romania-the last months of the Ceausescu regime. Adina is a young schoolteacher. Paul is a musician. Clara works in a wire factory. Pavel is Clara's lover. But one of them works for the secret police and is reporting on all of the group. One day Adina returns home to discover that her fox fur rug has had its tail cut off. On another occasion it's the hindleg. Then a foreleg. The mutilated fur is a sign that she is being tracked by the secret police-the fox was ever the hunter. Images of photographic precision combine into a kaleidoscope of terror as Adina and her friends struggle to keep mind and body intact in a world pervaded by complicity and permeated with fear, where it's hard to tell victim from perpetrator. In The Fox Was Always a Hunter, Herta Müller once again uses language that displays the "concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose"-as the Swedish Academy noted upon awarding her the Nobel Prize-to create a hauntingly cinematic portrayal of the corruption of the soul under totalitarianism.

Traveling on One Leg

Traveling on One Leg PDF Author: Herta Müller
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810116413
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 155

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The protagonist of Herta Muller's Traveling on One Leg is Irene, a fragile woman born to a German family in Romania, who has recently emigrated from Romania to Germany. The novel focuses on Irene's relationship with three men: Franz, whom she met in Romania and who was unwilling to respond to her love for him; Stefan, a friend of Franz's; and Thomas, a bisexual bookseller in perpetual crisis. Despite being born to a German family, Irene's place in Germany is as a recent emigre and an unassimilated Romanian German. She feels neither longing for Romania nor any comfort in her newly adopted Germany. Politically and socially isolated, Irene moves within the emotional orbit of these three men, while at the same time moving between West Berlin, Marburg, and Frankfurt, taking a dissonant journey within strange yet familiar territory. Characterized by the same sense of profound isolation found in Muller's The Land of Green Plums (see page 20), Traveling on One Leg is a poignant exploration of exile, homeland, and identity.

CRISTINA & HER DOUBLE

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

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Body and Narrative in Contemporary Literatures in German

Body and Narrative in Contemporary Literatures in German PDF Author: Lyn Marven
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0199277761
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 295

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This book compares three contemporary women writing in German: Herta Muller (from Romania), Libuse Monikova (from Czechoslovakia), and Kerstin Hensel (from the GDR). It looks at images of the body and their relationship to the structures of their writing as well as analysing the social, cultural, and political contexts.

Herta Müller

Herta Müller PDF Author: Brigid Haines
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199654646
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 287

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A critical companion to the works of Herta Müller, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009.