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City Of Angels Or, The Overcoat Of Dr. Freud (2010)

by Christa Wolf(Favorite Author)

3.75 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0374534292 (ISBN13: 9780374534295)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

review 1: This book had so many layers, and made me think so deeply - not only about the fall of the Berlin wall and Germany's history both pre and post that event. But also about the nature of depression, reading, conversations about literature, travel, America of the last few years and being an expat. Added to that was Wolf's intimate portrayal of the discovery that she contributed, however unwittingly, to collection of information by the Stasi and East German governments. Fascinating and incredibly thought-provoking.
review 2: I read this fictionalized memoir by the East German writer in English, a 2013 publication from Farrar, Straus Giroux which Goodreads doesn't seem to recognize. It is a confusing book, in which the author tries to make sense of her experiences a... mores a visiting scholar at, I am guessing, the Getty Center, in Santa Monica and also of the revelation that she informed on comrades to the East German secret police at a time in her past. The unsealing of secret Stasi files has made her -- and people back in the reunited Germany -- aware of this episode that she has forgotten, to her horror. The voice changes often from first to second person, often in the same sentence. Is this a deliberate effort to communicate her inability to connect with the Informant she once was? less

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