City of Angels
or, The Overcoat of Dr. Freud/ A Novel by Christa Wolf
- Published: Jul 27, 2020
The stunning final novel from East Germany's most acclaimed writer Three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the writer Christa Wolf was granted access to her newly declassified Stasi files. Known for her defiance and outspokenness, Wolf was not... read more
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Details of City of Angels
- Exact title of the book
- City of Angels
- Book author
- Christa Wolf
- ISBN
- 9781429942782
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Published
- Feb 05, 2013
- Language
- English
- Format
- PDF, FB2, EPUB, MOBI
- Pages
- 336
- File size (in PDF)
- 3024 kB
Some brief overview of book
The stunning final novel from East Germany's most acclaimed writer Three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the writer Christa Wolf was granted access to her newly declassified Stasi files. Known for her defiance and outspokenness, Wolf was not especially surprised to discover forty-two volumes of documents produced by the East German secret police. But what was surprising was a thin green folder whose contents told an unfamiliarand disturbingstory in the early 1960s, Wolf herself had been an informant for the Communist government.
And yet, thirty years on, she had absolutely no recollection of it. Wolf's extraordinary autobiographical final novel is an account of what it was like to reckon with such a shocking discovery. Based on the year she spent in Los Angeles after these explosive revelations, City of Angels is at once a powerful examination of memory and a surprisingly funny and touching exploration of L.
A., a city strikingly different from any Wolf had ever visited. Even as she reflects on the burdens of twentieth-century history, Wolf describes the pleasures of driving a Geo Metro down Wilshire Boulevard and watching episodes of Star Trek late at night. Rich with philosophical insights, personal revelations, and vivid descriptions of a diverse city and its citizens, City of Angels is a profoundly humane and disarmingly honest noveland a powerful conclusion to a remarkable career in letters.
About author
Wolf (1921-2011) was one of the most celebrated German writers of the postwar era. A central figure in East German literature and politics, she was arguably the foremost German-German writer, awarded major literature prizes in East, West, and reunified Germany. Her wide-ranging worknonfiction, fiction, and hybrids of the twois marked throughout by rigorous self-examination, political engagement, and committed feminism.
Her most important reexaminations of the cultural past and personal memory include Cassandra, a crucial text for Western feminists and a secret social critique for her readers in the East; Patterns of Childhood, a groundbreaking reflection on growing up in Nazi Germany; and City of Angels, a sequel of sorts to Patterns of Childhood that takes place after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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