Christa Wolf

On a flawless spring day in late April, an East German writer awaits a call from the hospital where her brother is undergoing brain surgery and instead receives news of a massive nuclear accident at Chernobyl, one thousand miles away. In a potent, lyrical stream of thought, the narrator confronts both mortality and …

Parting from Phantoms: Selected Writings, 1990-1994 is a book by Christa Wolf.

In this volume, the distinguished East German writer Christa Wolf retells the story of the fall of Troy, but from the point of view of the woman whose visionary powers earned her contempt and scorn. Written as a result of the author's Greek travels and studies, Cassandra speaks to us in a pressing monologue whose …

Une leucémie, ça ne plaisante pas. Emporte, balaye son sujet, sans fard, sans concession. C'est le cas de l'héroïne de ce roman, qui meurt avant l'heure, avant même l'âge mûr. Avec elle s'éteint une quête de l'idéal, une recherche de la perfection. La mort brutale de cette femme est l'occasion pour la narratrice de …