The Author's Dimension: Selected Essays

by Christa Wolf

Book Overview

Spanning the past three decades, these essays focus on the roles of the writer and literature today. In the first half of this series of witty, probing essays on reading and writing, Wolf examines the individual's, in particular the writer's, relationship to society. The final sections, "On War and Peace and Politics" and "The End of the German Democratic Republic," demonstrate the ways in which Wolf's political thinking has evolved and cast light...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226904946
• ISBN13: 9780226904948
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 343 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"