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Article: Understanding Christa Wolf: Returning Home to a Foreign Land.(Review)
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- International Fiction Review
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- January 1, 2001
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Margit Resch Understanding Christa Wolf: Returning Home to a Foreign Land Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. 182. $29.95
Resch argues that Wolf's literary achievement is one of East Germany's "most stubborn and enduring treasures" (171). With this first general survey of Christa Wolf's work to be published in English, Resch offers invaluable resource material for those who have long read the author's work in translation, as well as for undergraduate German Studies students. It is pointed out that more reviews and scholarly studies, in many languages, have been published on Wolf than on any other living German writer, and yet, a general ...