City of Angels: Or, the Overcoat of Dr. Freud / A Novel - Softcover

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An autobiographical final novel by the celebrated German author of Cassandra is based on the author's astonishing discovery that she was an informant for the Communist government and had no memory of her activities during a year spent in early 1960s Los Angeles. 15,000 first printing.02Christa Wolf (1921?2011) was one of the most celebrated German writers of the postwar era. A central figure in East German literature and politics, she was arguably the foremost German-German writer, awarded major literature prizes in East, West, and reunified Germany. Her wide-ranging work?nonfiction, fiction, and hybrids of the two?is marked throughout by rigorous self-examination, political engagement, and committed feminism. Her most important reexaminations of the cultural past and personal memory include Cassandra, a crucial text for Western feminists and a secret social critique for her readers in the East; Patterns of Childhood, a groundbreaking reflection on growing up in Nazi Germany; and City of Angels, a sequel of sorts to Patterns of Childhood that takes place after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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