Author: WOLF, CHRISTA (TRANSLATED BY JAN VAN HEURCK)
Title: No Place on Earth
Description: New York, NY: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1982. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0374222983. Illustrated by Jacqueline Schuman. Cover Art; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book covers, along with some beginning fading to the spine ends. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is clean and bright, but has noticeable fading to the spine. "Although Wolf's works were widely praised in both Germanys in the 1970s and 1980s, they have sometimes been seen as controversial since German reunification. William Dalrymple wrote that in East Germany "writers such as Christa Wolf became irrelevant overnight once the Berlin Wall was broached". Upon publication of Was bleibt, West German critics such as Frank Schirrmacher argued that Wolf failed to criticize the authoritarianism of the East German Communist regime, whilst others called her works "moralistic". Defenders have recognized Wolf's role in establishing a distinctly East German literary voice. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: 0374222983 Modern Fiction Christa Wolf Jan Van Heurck German Authors Karoline Von Gunderrode Heinrich Von Kleist
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Title: No Place on Earth
Description: New York, NY: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1982. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0374222983. Illustrated by Jacqueline Schuman. Cover Art; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book covers, along with some beginning fading to the spine ends. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is clean and bright, but has noticeable fading to the spine. "Although Wolf's works were widely praised in both Germanys in the 1970s and 1980s, they have sometimes been seen as controversial since German reunification. William Dalrymple wrote that in East Germany "writers such as Christa Wolf became irrelevant overnight once the Berlin Wall was broached". Upon publication of Was bleibt, West German critics such as Frank Schirrmacher argued that Wolf failed to criticize the authoritarianism of the East German Communist regime, whilst others called her works "moralistic". Defenders have recognized Wolf's role in establishing a distinctly East German literary voice. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: 0374222983 Modern Fiction Christa Wolf Jan Van Heurck German Authors Karoline Von Gunderrode Heinrich Von Kleist
Price: US$ 15.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 45223
- Book number: 45223
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