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Article: Gunter Kunert. Nachrichten aus Ambivalencia.
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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Gottingen, Germany. Wallstein. 2001 63 pages, ill. DM 28. ISBN 3-89244-436-6
BORN IN 1929, his first printed work dating from as early as 1947, and with his first book (Wegschilder und Mauerinschriften, 1950) reaching back more than half a century, Gunter Kunert is widely known and respected as a major force in German letters. He has published over sixty books, and every genre and sub-genre have seemed to come quite naturally to him. There have been poems, novels and short stories, radio plays and stage plays, screenplays, essays and criticism, travel writing, reviews, reportage, and reflections. As a longtime member of the SED, he was nonetheless an outspoken ...
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