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Cassandra : a novel and four essays / by Christa Wolf ; translated from the German by Jan van Heurck.
LIBRA - Special PT2685.O36 K313 1988
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wolf, Christa.
- Standardized Title:
- Kassandra. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Cassandra (Legendary character)--Fiction.
- Cassandra.
- Cassandra (Legendary character).
- Trojan War--Fiction.
- Trojan War.
- Troy (Extinct city)--Fiction.
- Troy (Extinct city).
- Turkey--Troy (Extinct city).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 305 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Farrar, Straus and Giroux paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Noonday Press : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988.
- Language Note:
- Translation of, Kassandra and Voraussetzungen einer Erzählung.
- Summary:
- 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 inner focal points are patriarchy and war. In the four accompanying pieces, which take the form of travel reports, journal entries, and a letter, Wolf describes the novel's genesis. Incisive and intelligent, the entire volume represents an urgent call to examine the past in order to insure a future.
- Contents:
- Travel report, about the accidental surfacing and gradual fabrication of a literary personage
- The travel report continues, and the trail is followed
- A work diary, about the stuff life and dreams are made of
- A letter, about unequivocal and ambiguous meaning, definiteness and indefiniteness; about ancient conditions and new view-scopes; about objectivity.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Kassandra and Voraussetzungen einer Erzählung.
- ISBN:
- 0374519048
- 9780374519049
- 0374119562
- 9780374119560
- OCLC:
- 23941893
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