The Quest for Christa T. (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Christa Wolf
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Philosophical realism
- Time of Work: The 1940’s to the 1960’s
- Setting: East Germany
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: 1950’s, Social action, Teaching or teachers, Language or languages, Values, 1960’s, Memory, Perception, Communism or communists, Love or romance, Authors or writers, 1940’s, World War II, Alienation, Individuality, Reality, Fear, Ethics, Germany or German people, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans, Leukemia
- Locales: East Germany
Characters Discussed
The narrator, a female writer who lives in East Germany and who attempts to write a biography of her late friend, Christa T. The narrator is in her late thirties. She was very close to her friend, and, upon the latter’s death, she believes that she must do something so that her memory will not be lost. She has a number of the friend’s papers, letters, and notes, as well as her own and others’ memories. As a writer, however, she is well aware of the distortions that writing can create and that her memories ultimately are subjective and may falsify the...
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