Cristina and Her Double

Selected Essays

Herta Müller (Y), Geoffrey Mulligan

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Portobello Books Ltd
01 December 2013

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Literary essays; Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship; Political control & freedoms

Simon Schama in defence of the essay in the age of Twitter writes: 'The self-propulsion of a ranging intelligence is the dynamo that drives a powerful essay; the headlong gallop of thought to a destination the reader can't predict and which may not have occurred to the writer when he began.' And that power, that propulsion, that surprise is evident in every one of this selection of the very finest of the essays produced over the past 20 years by the Nobel laureate Romanian-German writer Herta Muller. She interrogates Communist society, especially in its bizarre Romanian Ceaucescu variation, and matters of complicity, secrecy, betrayal, guilt, responsibility, resistance and the power of literature in a style that is bewitching, convincing and moving. She is unswerving, unsparing and undeluded. Her reader is grateful.

These are among the most powerful demonstrations of the pen's might exceeding the sword's to be produced in the last fifty years in Europe.

By: Herta Müller (Y)
Translated by: Geoffrey Mulligan
Imprint: Portobello Books Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 206mm, Width: 161mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 320g
ISBN: 9781846274756
ISBN 10: 1846274753
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 01 December 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Born in Romania in 1953, HERTA MULLER lost her job as a teacher and suffered repeated threats after refusing to cooperate with Ceau?escu's Secret Police. She succeeded in emigrating in 1987 and now lives in Berlin. The recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the European Literature Prize, she also won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for her novel, The Land of Green Plums.

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Cristina and Her Double

Selected Essays

Herta Müller (Y), Geoffrey Mulligan

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