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Eulogy for the Living - Taking Flight

English · Paperback / Softback

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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 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.

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Christa Wolf (1929-2011) was a key voice of critical artists and intellectuals in the German Democratic Republic and then united Germany. Katy Derbyshire is a translator of contemporary German fiction, including the work of Inka Parei, Dorothee Elmiger, Felicitas Hoppe, and Annett Gröschner.


Product details

Authors Katy Derbyshire, Christa Wolf, Gerhard Wolf
Assisted by Katy Derbyshire (Translation)
Publisher Seagull Books
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.08.2022
 
EAN 9781803090399
ISBN 978-1-80309-039-9
No. of pages 136
Dimensions 127 mm x 201 mm x 8 mm
Weight 159 g
Series The Seagull Library of German
Subject Fiction > Narrative literature

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