The wall in my head : words and images from the fall of the Iron Curtain.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Multiple languages

Subjects (All):

Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989--Literary collections.

Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989.

Post-communism--Europe--Literary collections.

Post-communism.

European literature--20th century--Translations into English.

European literature.

European literature--21st century--Translations into English.

Europe.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Literature.

Physical Description:

xii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, NY : Open Letter, 2009.

Summary:

On the night of November 9, 1989, after months of unrest in Europe and East Germany, the checkpoints of the Berlin Wall between East and West Berlin were suddenly, almost accidentally, opened, starting a process that would bring together a Europe that had been divided for thirty years. This anthology, which features fiction, essays, images, and historical documents. It combines work from the generation of writers and artists who witnessed the fall of the Iron Curtain first-hand with the impressions and reflections of those who grew up in its wake. The book provides a unique view into the change, optimism, and confusion that came with 1989 and examines how each of these has weathered the past twenty years--From publisher's description.

Contents:

From 'The art of the novel' / Milan Kundera

Paris lost / Wladimir Kaminer

from 'Moving house' / Paweł Huelle

Nabokov in Brasov / Mircea Cǎrtǎrescu

from 'Waltz for K' / Dmitri Savitski

Report from a besieged city / Zbigniew Herbert

On Eugen Jebeleanu / Matthew Zapruder

Poems from 'Secret weapon' / Eugen Jebeleanu

from 'Imperium' / Ryszard Kapuściński

from 'The tower' / Uwe Tellkamp

My grandmother the censor / Masha Gessen

from 'The wall jumper' / Peter Schneider

Farewell to the queue / Vladimir Sorokin

Tower of song : how The Plastic People of the Universe helped shape the Velvet Revolution / Paul Wilson

In pictures

The revenge / Annett Gröschner

The souvenirs of communism / Dubravka Ugresic

The road to Bornholm / Durs Grünbein

Regardless of the cost : reflections on Péter Esterházy's 'Revised edition' / Judith Sollosy

Preface to 'Revised edition' / Péter Esterházy

from 'Mandarins' / Stanislav Komárek

Brother and sister / Christhard Läpple

Faraway, so gross / Dorota Masłowska

from 'Urbancholia' / Dan Sociu

That fear / Andrzej Stasiuk

Speech at the opening session of the 13th German Bundestag / Stefan Heym

The life and times of a Soviet capitalist / Irakli Iosebashvili

The war within / Maxim Trudolubov

Any beach but this / David Zábranský

The noble school / Muharem Bazdulj.

Notes:

"A Words without borders anthology."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781934824238

1934824232

OCLC:

406109264

Publisher Number:

99936668588