The Land of Green Plums
Muller 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.
Muller 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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780810115972 (0810115972)
Publish date: November 11th 1998
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Pages no: 266
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Politics,
Contemporary,
German Literature,
Romania,
Germany,
Fiction
Yes, of course poetic prose can be beyond annoying and pretentious. But when it works, it works. The Land of Green Plums is dense, blurry, harsh, emotional, intimate and very poetic. It's also effortless, which makes the reading experience even more exciting and disturbing, as I suspect was the writ...
Wstrząsająca lektura. Styl pisarki nieporównywalny z niczym: szorstki a poetycki, język beznamiętny a wstrząsający i walący obuchem w łeb. Inność tej książki i jej klimat trzyma czytelnika i wymaga po skończonej lekturze rytuałów oczyszczających.
I'm guessing this is not for everyone. Very peculiar, but it does set a certain mood.
meh...
I looked forward to reading this book. Usually I enjoy poetic, (partially) biographical kinds of books with a stream-of-conscious kind of writing. I can't help but feel that something got lost in translation. It could somehow easily imagine this being a great book in its original language, but at le...
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