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Article: Christa Wolf and Understanding Christa Wolf: Returning Home to a Foreign Land.
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- International Fiction Review
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- January 1, 2002
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Gail Finney Christa Wolf New York: Twayne, 1999. Twayne World Authors Series. Pp. 142. $33.00
Margit Resch Understanding Christa Wolf: Returning Home to a Foreign Land Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. 182. $29.95
Margit Resch argues that Wolf's literary achievement is one of East Germany's "most stubborn and enduring treasures" (171). With these first general surveys of Christa Wolf's work to be published in English, Resch and Finney offer invaluable resource material for those who have long read the author's work in translation, as well as for undergraduate German Studies students. Resch points out that more reviews and scholarly ...