Christa Wolf

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Eulogy for the Living: Taking FlightPaperback, 5 August 2022

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Part of Series
The Seagull Library of German Literature
Print Length
136 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Seagull Books
Date Published
5 Aug 2022
ISBN-10
1803090391
ISBN-13
9781803090399

Description

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 book Patterns of Childhood, she explained why it was so difficult: "Gradually, over a period of months, the dilemma has emerged: to remain speechless or to live in the third person, these seem to be the options. One is impossible, the other sinister." During 1971 and 1972 she made thirty-three attempts to start the novel, abandoning each manuscript only pages in. Eulogy for the Living, written over the course of four weeks, is the longest of those fragments. In its pages, Wolf recalls with crystalline precision the everyday details of her life as a middle-class grocer's daughter, and the struggles within the family--struggles common to most families, but exacerbated by the rise of Nazism. And as Nazism fell, the Wolfs fled west, trying to stay ahead of the rampaging Red Army.

Product Details

Author:
Christa Wolf
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
5 August 2022
Dimensions:
20.07 x 12.7 x 0.76 cm
ISBN-10:
1803090391
ISBN-13:
9781803090399
Language:
English
Pages:
136
Publisher:
Weight:
158.76 gm

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