Christa Wolf

• Nov-1979
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When The Quest for Christa T. was first published in East Germany ten years ago, there was an immediate storm: bookshops in East Berlin were given instructions to sell it only to well-known customers professionally involved in literary matters; at...

• Sep-1983
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• May-1984
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Returning to her native town in East Germany forty years later, accompanied by her inquisitive and sometimes demanding daughter, Wolf attempts to recapture her past and to clarify memories of growing up in Nazi Germany...

• May-1988
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In this volume, the distinguished East German writer Christa Wolf retells the story of the fall of Troy, but from the point of view of the woman whose visionary powers earned her contempt and scorn. Written as a result of the author's Greek travel...

• Apr-1989
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An East German writer, awaiting a call from the hospital where her brother is undergoing brain surgery, instead receives news of a massive nuclear accident at Chernobyl, one thousand miles away. In the space of a single day, in a potent, lyrical stre...

• Apr-1993
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What Remains collects Christa Wolf's short fiction, from her early work in the sixties to the recently published title story, which was widely debated when it appeared in Germany in 1990.These powerful and often very personal stories examine a wide r...

• Apr-1998
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Medea is among the most notorious women in the canon of Greek tragedy: a woman scorned who sacrifices her own children to her jealous rage. In her gripping new novel, Christa Wolf explodes this myth, revealing a fiercely independent woman ensnared...

• Mar-2005
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Suffering severe abdominal pain, a woman is rushed to the emergency room of a decrepit urban hospital. Her soaring temperature, her deepening distress, her body's resistance to medicine all confound her doctors, who operate repeatedly.Drifting in and...

• Jan-2007
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"The rewards of reading Christa Wolf can be very considerable."-The Times Literary Supplement

In 1960, East German writer Christa Wolf received a phone call from a Moscow newspaper asking if she would describe her experiences...

• Feb-2013
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The stunning final novel from East Germany’s most acclaimed writer Three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the writer Christa Wolf began to sort through her newly declassified Stasi files. Known for her defiance and outspokenness, Wolf wa...

• Feb-2013
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First published in 1963, in East Germany, They Divided the Sky tells the story of a young couple, living in the new, socialist, East Germany, whose relationship is tested to the extreme not only because of the political positions they gradually devel...

• Feb-2014
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Christa Wolf was arguably the best-known and most influential writer in the former East Germany. Having grown up during the Nazi regime, she and her family were forced to flee their home like many others, nearly starving to death in the process. Her ...

• Apr-2018
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A fragmentary work that stands as a testament to Wolf’s skill as a thinker, storyteller, and memorializer of humanity’s greatest struggles.Christa Wolf tried for years to find a way to write about her childhood in Nazi Germany. In her 1976 b...