The Passport
Herta Muller
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Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2009
'Just as the father in the house in which we live is our father, so Comrade Nicolae Ceausescu is the father of our country. And just as the mother in the house in which we live is our mother, so Comrade Elena Ceausescu is the mother of our country. Comrade Nicolae Ceausescu is the father of our children. All the children love comrade Nicolae and comrade Elena, because they are their parents.'
The Passport is a beautiful, haunting novel whose subject is a German village in Romania caught between the stifling hopelessness of Ceausescu's dictatorship and the glittering temptations of the West. Stories from the past are woven together with the problems Windisch, the village miller, faces after he applies for permission to migrate to West Germany.
Herta Müller describes with poetic attention the dreams and superstitions, conflicts and oppression of a forgotten region, the Banat, in the Danube Plain. In sparse, lyrical language, Herta Müller captures the forlorn plight of a trapped people.
This edition is translated by Martin Chalmers, with a new foreword by Paul Bailey.
Also by Herta Müller: Nadirs, The Land of Green Plums, The Appointment, and The Hunger Angel.
Rezensionen
[The Appointment] Müller scatters narrative bombshells across a field of dreams
[Muller'
Müller writes with elegant simplicity, in the great tradition of German storytelling - this would not look out of place in Hebel'
Appropriately on the side of underdogs from Ceausescu'
Müller is courageous and has summoned her surrealist imagination to brilliant effect when exposing the horrors of totalitarianism... <i>The Passport</i>, which was published in Berlin in 1986, months before she fled Romania, is an almost allegorical elegy of village life dominated by the need to escape.... Müller uses the quality of European folk tale to brilliant effect. Set in a German village in Romania where the people dream of a different life in the West, the story is true to any country in which fantasy is the only escape from oppression... Politics and truth-telling, the courage of the witness and the weight of the message often decides the Nobel Literature Prize; in Herta Müller all of these elements are present, yet so too is the artist as the lone voice beckoning, intent on telling a story, on shaping a word picture
<b><i>Praise for The Passport: </i></b>A phenomenal, moving and humbling novel, perhaps the most memorable read of the autumn
A swift, stinging narrative, fable-like in its stoic concision and painterly detail
At once spare and poetic, this novella-length tale nevertheless attains the epic ponderousness that defines recent Laureates
This short novel expands in the mind to occupy an emotional space far beyond its short length or the seeming simplicity of its story.
With the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, Müller depicts the language of the dispossessed
A powerful autobiographical account, <i>The Land of Green Plums</i>... will linger on in the mind
<i>The Land of Green Plums</i> is a miracle, a fearless human testimony which operates through the combined force of Müller'
<b><i>Praise for The Land of Green Plums:</i></b> A novel of graphically observed detail in which the author seeks to create a sort of poetry out of the spiritual and material ugliness of life in Communist Romania
What heightens this bleak vision is her startling, hallucinatory use of metaphor and surreal imagery
Graphically observed... forces the reader to confront the complex tapestry of Eastern European history in the late 20th Century. And although the author left Romania in the 1980s, she remains interested in the issues of oppression and exile, which makes her a universal writer
Herta Muller portrays a community that is breaking up, a dying village whose German inhabitants all seek to emigrate. At the centre stands the miller Windisch waiting for his passport. Bribing the mayor with sacks of flour proved in vain - so, now, in a rage of helpnessness, he has to allow his daughter to visit the militiaman and the priest, to search for passports and baptismal certificates in their beds. The dirty realities of a totalitarian state... a chilling, far-sighted and lyrical graveside speech for a sad village in a sad land
Müller has an eye for the surreal detail of a police state and has made it into strong, muscular literature
Especially now, 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it'
<i>The Passport</i>, the first of her novels to be translated into English, is a stunning introduction to her jewel-like prose, hard and clear as a diamond.
Müller provides a master class in sparse, clear prose, and conveys the bleakness of humanity, with the occasional touch of dark, bitter magic - fully earning her Nobel Prize for literature this year... Often harrowing, startling, as devoid of decoration as the world she is describing, Müller'
If W G Sebald'
<b><i>Praise for The Appointment: </i></b> <i></i>A brooding, fog-shrouded allegory of life under the long oppression of the regime of Nicolae Ceausescu
Herta Müller'
I am struck by her sparse yet poetic language...it reminds very much of our literature during apartheid, although this one is of a very high literary merit.
Kundenbewertungen
The Land of Green Plums, nobel prize, The Hunger Angel, Paul Bailey, Martin Chalmers, Nicolae Ceausescu, nobel prize for literature 2009, Nadirs, herta muller, Danube, Granta, The Appointment, Ceausescu, Banat, Windisch