Christa Wolf (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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Christa Wolf’s reputation rests primarily upon her novels. Her short stories were collected into one volume in 1980, Gesammelte Erzählungen, updated and translated in 1993 as What Remains and Other Stories. Her most important essays, reviews, speeches, and interviews are found in Lesen und Schreiben: Aufsätze und Betrachtungen (1971; The Reader and the Writer: Essays, Sketches, Memories, 1977), Lesen und Schreiben: Neue Sammlung (1980), Die Dimension des Autors (1987; The Author’s Dimension, 1993), and...

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