Christa Wolf

Kassandra is een roman uit 1983 van de Duitse schrijfster Christa Wolf. De roman gaat over de Trojaanse Oorlog geschreven vanuit het perspectief van de mythologische figuur Cassandra. Volgens Wolf is het idee voor Kassandra per toeval ontstaan, tijdens een reis naar Griekenland. Wolf woonde destijds in de Duitse …

Medea is among the most notorious women in the canon of Greek tragedy: a woman scorned who sacrifices her own children to her jealous rage. In her gripping new novel, Christa Wolf explodes this myth, revealing a fiercely independent woman ensnared in a brutal political battle.Medea, driven by her conscience to leave …

When The Quest for Christa T. was first published in East Germany ten years ago, there was an immediate storm: bookshops in East Berlin were given instructions to sell it only to well-known customers professionally involved in literary matters; at the annual meeting of East German Writers Conference, Mrs Wolf's new …

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 …

One Day a Year: 1960-2000 is a book by Christa Wolf.