Herta Müller politics and aesthetics /

Brandt, Bettina.

Herta Müller politics and aesthetics / edited by Bettina Brandt and Valentina Glajar. - Lincoln : UNP - Nebraska Paperback, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (306 pages)

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1. Life, Writing, and Betrayal; 1. Herta Müller; 2. Nobel Lecture; 3. Collage Poems; 4. Interview with Ernest Wichner; Part 2. Totalitarianism, Autofiction, Memory; 5. When Dictatorships Fail to Deprive of Dignity; 6. "Die akute Einsamkeit des Menschen"; 7. Facts, Fiction, Autofiction, andSurfiction in Herta Müller's Work; 8. From Fact to Fiction; Part 3. Müller's Aesthetics of Experimentation; 9. "Wir können höchstens mit dem, waswir sehen, etwas zusammenstellen""; 10. In Transit 11. Osmoses12. Herta Müller's Art of Reverberation; 13. Accumulating Histories; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index

Two languages-German and Romanian-inform the novels, essays, and collage poetry of Nobel laureate Herta Müller. Describing her writing as "autofictional," Müller depicts the effects of violence, cruelty, and terror on her characters based on her own experiences in Communist Romania under the repressive Nicolae Ceausescu regime. Herta Müller: Politics and Aesthetics explores Müller's writings from different literary, cultural, and historical perspectives. Part 1 features Müller's Nobel lecture, five new collage poems, and an interview with Ernest Wichner, a German-Ro.



9781461940425 9780803248427


Müller, Herta, 1953- --Criticism and interpretation.


Literature.
Muller, Herta.


Electronic Books.

PT2673 / .H478 2013