The wall in my head : words and images from the fall of the Iron Curtain.
On the night of November 9, 1989, after months of unrest in Europe and East Germany, the checkpoints of the Berlin Wall between East and West Berlin were suddenly, almost accidentally, opened, starting a process that would bring together a Europe that had been divided for thirty years. This antholog...
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| Language: | English |
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Rochester, NY :
Open Letter,
2009.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- From 'The art of the novel' / Milan Kundera
- Paris lost / Wladimir Kaminer
- from 'Moving house' / Paweł Huelle
- Nabokov in Brasov / Mircea Cǎrtǎrescu
- from 'Waltz for K' / Dmitri Savitski
- Report from a besieged city / Zbigniew Herbert
- On Eugen Jebeleanu / Matthew Zapruder
- Poems from 'Secret weapon' / Eugen Jebeleanu
- from 'Imperium' / Ryszard Kapuściński
- from 'The tower' / Uwe Tellkamp
- My grandmother the censor / Masha Gessen
- from 'The wall jumper' / Peter Schneider
- Farewell to the queue / Vladimir Sorokin
- Tower of song : how The Plastic People of the Universe helped shape the Velvet Revolution / Paul Wilson
- In pictures
- The revenge / Annett Gröschner
- The souvenirs of communism / Dubravka Ugresic
- The road to Bornholm / Durs Grünbein
- Regardless of the cost : reflections on Péter Esterházy's 'Revised edition' / Judith Sollosy
- Preface to 'Revised edition' / Péter Esterházy
- from 'Mandarins' / Stanislav Komárek
- Brother and sister / Christhard Läpple
- Faraway, so gross / Dorota Masłowska
- from 'Urbancholia' / Dan Sociu
- That fear / Andrzej Stasiuk
- Speech at the opening session of the 13th German Bundestag / Stefan Heym
- The life and times of a Soviet capitalist / Irakli Iosebashvili
- The war within / Maxim Trudolubov
- Any beach but this / David Zábranský
- The noble school / Muharem Bazdulj.