Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays - Softcover

Wolf, Christa

 
9780374519049: Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0374519048 ISBN 13: 9780374519049
Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988

Inhaltsangabe

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 travels and studies, Cassandra speaks to us in a pressing monologue whose inner focal points are patriarchy and war. In the four accompanying pieces, which take the form of travel reports, journal entries, and a letter, Wolf describes the novel's genesis. Incisive and intelligent, the entire volume represents an urgent call to examine the past in order to insure a future.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Christa Wolf was a German literary critic, novelist and essayist. She was one of the best known writers to have emerged from the former East Germany. Der geteilte Himmel was her first full-length novel, published when she was thirty-five years old; it was both a great literary success and a political scandal.Accused of having a 'decadent' attitude with regard to the new socialist Germany and deliberately misrepresenting the workers who are the foundation of this new state, Wolf survived a wave of political and other attacks after its publication. However, she went on to become the best-known East German writer of her generation, a writer who established an international reputation and never stopped working toward improving the socialist reality of the GDR.Christa Wolf passed away in December 2011.

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Verlag
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Erscheinungsdatum
1988
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0374519048
ISBN 13 
9780374519049
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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