The Quest for Christa T. (Masterplots II: World Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Christa Wolf
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Work: Philosophical realism
- Time of Work: The 1940’s to the 1960’s
- Setting: East Germany: Freideberg, Leipzig, Berlin, and Mecklenberg
- Principal Characters: The Narrator, Christa T., Justus
- 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
The Novel
The Quest for Christa T. is an attempt to capture the quality of a life—the life of an ordinary, unheroic woman. Christa T. is an adolescent as World War II ends; she is educated, teaches, marries, has children, and dies young from leukemia in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) of the 1950’s and the 1960’s. The unnamed narrator’s quest in writing the biography of Christa T. encompasses her own memories of her friend; Christa T.’s diaries, letters, poetry, and occasional writings; the memories of Christa T.’s family; imagined...
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