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Article: The attack of Christa Wolf. (German author)
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- The Nation
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- October 22, 1990
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The Attack on Christa Wolf
Christa Wolf, perhaps the most prominent woman writer in postwar Germany, is today at the center of a literary and political storm. For more than twenty years, the West German literary establishment lavished the praise on her work and brimmed with respect for the way she handled her role in authoritarian East Germany. At the annual book fair in Frankfurt in October 1989 Wolf was even rumored to be a finalist for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Last summer, Wolf published a novella, Was bleibt ("What Remains"), chronicling a period in her life when she was under surveillance by the East Germany security police. Critics and ...