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Eulogy for the Living
Christa Wolf
其他書名
Taking Flight
出版
Seagull Books
, 2022-08-05
主題
Fiction / Historical / 20th Century / World War II
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Women
Literary Criticism / General
ISBN
1803090391
9781803090399
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=EcX3zgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
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.