The Secret Police Dossier Of Herta Müller

Author : Valentina Glajar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Authors, German
ISBN : 1800108842

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The Secret Police Dossier of Herta Müller by Valentina Glajar Pdf

""Herta Müller should share her Nobel with the Securitate." This comment by a former officer in the Romanian secret police, or Securitate, was in reaction to hearing that Müller, a German writer originally from Romania, had won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. Communist Romania's infamous secret police was indeed a protagonist in Müller's work, though an undesired and dreaded one: most of her writings are deeply and explicitly anchored in Ceaușescu's Romania and her own traumatic experiences with the Securitate. Müller's file traces her surveillance from 1983 until after she emigrated to West Germany in 1987. She has written extensively in reaction to reading her file, but primarily addresses its gaps, begging the question what information the file does in fact contain"--

Author : Valentina N. Glajar
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-21
Category : Authors, German
ISBN : 9781640141537

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The Secret Police Dossier of Herta Müller by Valentina N. Glajar Pdf

""Herta Müller should share her Nobel with the Securitate." This comment by a former officer in the Romanian secret police, or Securitate, was in reaction to hearing that Müller, a German writer originally from Romania, had won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. Communist Romania's infamous secret police was indeed a protagonist in Müller's work, though an undesired and dreaded one: most of her writings are deeply and explicitly anchored in Ceaușescu's Romania and her own traumatic experiences with the Securitate. Müller's file traces her surveillance from 1983 until after she emigrated to West Germany in 1987. She has written extensively in reaction to reading her file, but primarily addresses its gaps, begging the question what information the file does in fact contain"--

Author : Bettina Brandt,Valentina Glajar
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496209306

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Herta Müller by Bettina Brandt,Valentina Glajar Pdf

Two languages--German and Romanian--inform the novels, essays, and collage poetry of Nobel laureate Herta Müller. Describing her writing as "autofictional," Müller depicts the effects of violence, cruelty, and terror on her characters based on her own experiences in Communist Romania under the repressive Nicolae Ceau?escu regime. Herta Müller: Politics and Aesthetics explores Müller's writings from different literary, cultural, and historical perspectives. Part 1 features Müller's Nobel lecture, five new collage poems, and an interview with Ernest Wichner, a German-Romanian author who has traveled with her and sheds light on her writing. Parts 2 and 3, featuring essays by scholars from across Europe and the United States, address the political and poetical aspects of Müller's texts. Contributors discuss life under the Romanian Communist dictatorship while also stressing key elements of Müller's poetics, which promises both self-conscious formal experimentation and political intervention. One of the first books in English to thoroughly examine Müller's writing, this volume addresses audiences with an interest in dissident, exile, migration, experimental, and transnational literature.

Author : Włodzimierz Borodziej,Ferenc Laczó,Joachim von Puttkamer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000096187

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The Routledge History Handbook of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century by Włodzimierz Borodziej,Ferenc Laczó,Joachim von Puttkamer Pdf

Intellectual Horizons offers a pioneering, transnational and comparative treatment of key thematic areas in the intellectual and cultural history of Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth century. For most of the twentieth century, Central and Eastern European ideas and cultures constituted an integral part of wider European trends. However, the intellectual and cultural history of this diverse region has rarely been incorporated sufficiently into nominally comprehensive histories of Europe. This volume redresses this underrepresentation and provides a more balanced perspective on the recent past of the continent through original, critical overviews of themes ranging from the social and conceptual history of intellectuals and histories of political thought and historiography, to literary, visual and religious cultures, to perceptions and representations of the region in the twentieth century. While structured thematically, individual contributions are organized chronologically. They emphasize, where relevant, generational experiences, agendas and accomplishments, while taking into account the sharp ruptures that characterize the period. The third in a four-volume set on Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth century, it is the go-to resource for understanding the intellectual and cultural history of this dynamic region.

Author : Katherine Verdery
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822371908

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My Life as a Spy by Katherine Verdery Pdf

As Katherine Verdery observes, "There's nothing like reading your secret police file to make you wonder who you really are." In 1973 Verdery began her doctoral fieldwork in the Transylvanian region of Romania, ruled at the time by communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. She returned several times over the next twenty-five years, during which time the secret police—the Securitate—compiled a massive surveillance file on her. Reading through its 2,781 pages, she learned that she was "actually" a spy, a CIA agent, a Hungarian agitator, and a friend of dissidents: in short, an enemy of Romania. In My Life as a Spy she analyzes her file alongside her original field notes and conversations with Securitate officers. Verdery also talks with some of the informers who were close friends, learning the complex circumstances that led them to report on her, and considers how fieldwork and spying can be easily confused. Part memoir, part detective story, part anthropological analysis, My Life as a Spy offers a personal account of how government surveillance worked during the Cold War and how Verdery experienced living under it.

Author : Nobel Foundation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 918584845X

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Les Prix Nobel by Nobel Foundation Pdf

Author : Valentina Glajar,Alison Lewis,Corina L. Petrescu
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781571139269

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Secret Police Files from the Eastern Bloc by Valentina Glajar,Alison Lewis,Corina L. Petrescu Pdf

New essays exploring the tension between the versions of the past in secret police files and the subjects' own personal memories-and creative workings-through-of events.

Author : Herta Müller
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0810115972

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The Land of Green Plums by Herta Müller Pdf

Mueller takes an unflinching look at the alienation and complexity of a rapidly changing Eastern Europe, focusing on a group of young friends in Ceaucescu's Romania.

Author : Herta M_ller
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780803235830

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Nadirs by Herta M_ller Pdf

Author : Herta Müller
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998-11-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780810116412

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Traveling on One Leg by Herta Müller Pdf

The protagonist of Herta Muller's Traveling on One Leg is Irene, a fragile woman born to a German family in Romania, who has recently emigrated from Romania to Germany. The novel focuses on Irene's relationship with three men: Franz, whom she met in Romania and who was unwilling to respond to her love for him; Stefan, a friend of Franz's; and Thomas, a bisexual bookseller in perpetual crisis. Despite being born to a German family, Irene's place in Germany is as a recent emigre and an unassimilated Romanian German. She feels neither longing for Romania nor any comfort in her newly adopted Germany. Politically and socially isolated, Irene moves within the emotional orbit of these three men, while at the same time moving between West Berlin, Marburg, and Frankfurt, taking a dissonant journey within strange yet familiar territory. Characterized by the same sense of profound isolation found in Muller's The Land of Green Plums (see page 20), Traveling on One Leg is a poignant exploration of exile, homeland, and identity.

Author : D. Deletant
Publisher : Springer
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230502093

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Hitler's Forgotten Ally by D. Deletant Pdf

This book is the first complete study in English of Antonescu's part in the Second World War. Antonescu was a major ally of Hitler and Romania fielded the third largest Axis army, joined the Tripartite Pact in November 1940 as a sovereign state and participated in the attack on the Soviet Union of 22 June 1941 as an equal partner of Germany.

Author : Manfred Brauneck,ITI Zentrum Deutschland
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783839432433

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Independent Theatre in Contemporary Europe by Manfred Brauneck,ITI Zentrum Deutschland Pdf

Over the past 20 years European theatre underwent fundamental changes in terms of aesthetic focus, institutional structure and in its position in society. The impetus for these changes was provided by a new generation in the independent theatre scene. This book brings together studies on the state of independent theatre in different European countries, focusing on the fields of dance and performance, children and youth theatre, theatre and migration and post-migrant theatre. Additionally, it includes essays on experimental musical theatre and different cultural policies for independent theatre scenes in a range of European countries.

Author : Boris Volodarsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199656585

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Stalin's Agent by Boris Volodarsky Pdf

This is the history of an unprecedented deception operation - the biggest KGB deception of all time. It has never been told in full until now. There are almost certainly people who would like it never to be told. It is the story of General Alexander Orlov. Stalin's most loyal and trusted henchman during the Spanish Civil War, Orlov was also the Soviet handler controlling Kim Philby, the British spy, defector, and member of the notorious 'Cambridge Five'. Escaping Stalin's purges, Orlov fled to America in the late 1930s and lived underground. He only dared reveal his identity to the world after Stalin's death, in his 1953 best-seller The Secret History of Stalin's Crimes, after which he became perhaps the best known of all Soviet defectors, much written about, highly praised, and commemorated by the US Congress on his death in 1973. But there is a twist in the Orlov story beyond the dreams of even the most ingenious spy novelist: 'General Alexander Orlov' never actually existed. The man known as 'Orlov' was in fact born Leiba Feldbin. And while he was a loyal servant of Stalin and the controller of Philby, he was never a General in the KGB, never truly defected to the West after his 'flight' from the USSR, and remained a loyal Soviet agent until his death. The 'Orlov' story as it has been accepted until now was largely the invention of the KGB - and one perpetuated long after the end of the Cold War. In this meticulous new biography, Boris Volodarsky, himself a former Soviet intelligence officer, now tells the true story behind 'Orlov' for the first time. An intriguing tale of Russian espionage and deception, stretching from the time of Lenin to the Putin era, it is a story that many people in the world's intelligence agencies would almost definitely prefer you not to know about.

Author : David Damrosch
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691234557

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Comparing the Literatures by David Damrosch Pdf

Paperback reprint. Originally published: 2020.

Author : Herta Müller
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001-09-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429942706

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The Appointment by Herta Müller Pdf

From the winner of the IMPAC Award and the Nobel Prize, a fierce novel about a young Romanian woman's discovery of betrayal in the most intimate reaches of her life "I've been summoned. Thursday, ten sharp." Thus begins one day in the life of a young clothing-factory worker during Ceaucescu's totalitarian regime. She has been questioned before; this time, she believes, will be worse. Her crime? Sewing notes into the linings of men's suits bound for Italy. "Marry me," the notes say, with her name and address. Anything to get out of the country. As she rides the tram to her interrogation, her thoughts stray to her friend Lilli, shot trying to flee to Hungary, to her grandparents, deported after her first husband informed on them, to Major Albu, her interrogator, who begins each session with a wet kiss on her fingers, and to Paul, her lover, her one source of trust, despite his constant drunkenness. In her distraction, she misses her stop to find herself on an unfamiliar street. And what she discovers there makes her fear of the appointment pale by comparison. Herta Müller pitilessly renders the humiliating terrors of a crushing regime. Bone-spare and intense, The Appointment confirms her standing as one of Europe's greatest writers.