City of Angels
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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; andCity of Angels, a sequel of sorts to Patterns of Childhood that takes place after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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The stunning final novel from East Germany's most acclaimed writerThree years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the writer Christa Wolf was granted access to her newly declassified Stasi files. Known for her defiance and outspokenness, Wolf was not especially surprised to discover forty-two volumes of documents produced by the East German secret police. But what was surprising was a thin green folder whose contents told an unfamiliar-and disturbing-story: in the early 1960s, Wolf herself had been an informant for the Communist government. And yet, thirty years on, she had absolutely no recollection of it.
Wolf's extraordinary autobiographical final novel is an account of what it was like to reckon with such a shocking discovery. Based on the year she spent in Los Angeles after these explosive revelations, City of Angels is at once a powerful examination of memory and a surprisingly funny and touching exploration of L.A., a city strikingly different from any Wolf had ever visited.
Even as she reflects on the burdens of twentieth-century history, Wolf describes the pleasures of driving a Geo Metro down Wilshire Boulevard and watching episodes of Star Trek late at night. Rich with philosophical insights, personal revelations, and vivid descriptions of a diverse city and its citizens, City of Angels is a profoundly humane and disarmingly honest novel-and a powerful conclusion to a remarkable career in letters.
Autoren-Porträt von Christa Wolf
Christa Wolf, 1929 in Landsberg an der Warthe geboren, lebt mit ihrem Mann Gerhard Wolf in Berlin. Sie zählt zu den bedeutendsten Schriftstellerinnen der Gegenwart; ihr umfangreiches erzählerisches und essayistisches Werk wurde in alle Weltsprachen übersetzt und mit zahlreichen nationalen und internationalen Preisen ausgezeichnet, darunter dem Heinrich-Mann-Preis der Akademie der Künste der DDR (1963), dem Literaturpreis der Freien Hansestadt Bremen (1977), dem Georg-Büchner-Preis der Deutschen Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung, Darmstadt (1980), dem Österreichischen Staatspreis für europäische Literatur (1985), dem Geschwister-Scholl-Preis der Stadt München (1987), dem Nationalpreis 1. Klasse für Kunst und Literatur (1987), der Ehrendoktorwürde der Freien Universität Brüssel (1990), dem Orden Officier des Arts et des Lettres (1990), dem Elisabeth-Langgässer-Preis (1999) und dem Nelly Sachs-Preis (1999). 2009 wurde Christa Wolf zur Ehrenpräsidentin des P.E.N. ernannt. 2010 erhielt sie den Thomas-Mann-Preis für ihr Lebenswerk.Im Dezember 2011 verstarb Christa Wolf in Berlin.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Christa Wolf
- 2014, 332 Seiten, Maße: 15,6 x 23,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Macmillan US
- ISBN-10: 0374534292
- ISBN-13: 9780374534295
- Erscheinungsdatum: 18.02.2014
Sprache:
Englisch
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