Synopses & Reviews
Two languagesand#8212;German and Romanianand#8212;inform the novels, essays, and collage poetry of Nobel laureate Herta Mand#252;ller. Describing her writing as and#8220;autofictional,and#8221; Mand#252;ller depicts the effects of violence, cruelty, and terror on her characters based on her own experiences in Communist Romania under the repressive Nicolae Ceauand#351;escu regime.
Herta Mand#252;ller: Politics and Aesthetics explores Mand#252;llerand#8217;s writings from different literary, cultural, and historical perspectives. Part 1 features Mand#252;llerand#8217;s Nobel lecture, five new collage poems, and an interview with Ernest Wichner, a German-Romanian author who has traveled with her and sheds light on her writing. Parts 2 and 3, featuring essays by scholars from across Europe and the United States, address the political and poetical aspects of Mand#252;llerand#8217;s texts. Contributors discuss life under the Romanian Communist dictatorship while also stressing key elements of Mand#252;llerand#8217;s poetics, which promises both self-conscious formal experimentation and political intervention.
One of the firstand#160;books in Englishand#160;to thoroughly examine Mand#252;llerand#8217;s writing, this volume addresses audiences with an interest in dissident, exile, migration, experimental, and transnational literature.
Synopsis
Gabriel Garc a M rquez is Latin America's most internationally famous and successful author, and a winner of the Nobel Prize. His oeuvre of great modern novels includes One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. His name has become closely associated with Magical Realism, a phenomenon that has been immensely influential in world literature. This Companion includes new and probing readings of all of Garc a M rquez's works, by leading international specialists. His life in Colombia, the context of Latin American history and culture, key themes in his works and their critical reception are explored in detail. Written for students and readers of Garc a M rquez, the Companion is accessible for non-Spanish speakers and features a chronology and a guide to further reading. This insightful and lively book will provide an invaluable framework for the further study and enjoyment of this major figure in world literature.
About the Author
Bettina Brandt taught at MIT, Columbia University, and Montclair State before joining the faculty at Pennsylvania State University. She has published on contemporary women writers such as Emine and#214;zdamar and Yoko Tawada. Valentina Glajar is a professor of German at Texas State University, San Marcos. She is the coauthor of several books, including Local History, Transnational Memory in the Romanian Holocaust, and is the cotranslator of Mand#252;llerand#8217;s Traveling on One Leg.