A audience of western Berliners collect during the Berlin Wall while a east german soldier patrols on the reverse side, August 1961. Photograph: Paul Schutzer/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Photos
This 1963 first novel founded Wolf’s reputation in east literature that is german. Set during 1961, whenever construction of this Berlin Wall started, the story is dependent around two fans divided by it: Rita Seidel, a lady inside her 20s that are early, just like the author, generally speaking supports the values of this “antifascist” GDR, and Manfred Herrfurth, a chemist whom settles when you look at the western. Continue reading “They Divided the Sky by Christa Wolf. The Bridge for the Golden Horn by Emine Sevgi Ozdamar”