The Author's Dimension: Selected Essays - Softcover

Wolf, Christa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226904946 ISBN 13: 9780226904948

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1995

Synopsis

Spanning the past three decades, these essays focus on the roles of the writer and literature today. In the first half of this series of witty, probing essays on reading and writing, Wolf examines the individual's, in particular the writer's, relationship to society. The final sections, "On War and Peace and Politics" and "The End of the German Democratic Republic," demonstrate the ways in which Wolf's political thinking has evolved and cast light on the political situation in East Germany prior to reunification.

"An important publication, ably served by the editing of Alexander Stephan; the knowledgeable translation by Jan Van Heurck; and Grace Paley's sisterly introduction, which . . . claims at least the later Christa Wolf for a pacifist feminism."—Peter Demetz, New York Times

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About the Author

Christa Wolf’s (1929–2011) other works include the ground-breaking Cassandra, Patterns of Childhood and The Quest for Christa T. She has been awarded many prizes, among them the Büchner Prize of the German Academy of Language and Poetry the Austrian State Prize for European Literature and the Geschwister Scholl Prize of the city of Munich.

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0226904946
• ISBN 13: 9780226904948
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 343
• Editor: Stephan Alexander