What remains and other stories
By: Christa Wolf ; translated by Heike Schwarzbauer and Rick Takvorian
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780374288884
Subjects: Translations into English
Work titles: Short stories
Description: What Remains collects Christa Wolf's short fiction, from her early work in the sixties to the recently published title story, which was widely debated when it appeared in Germany in 1990. These powerful and often very personal stories examine a wide range of topics, from sexual politics to the nature of memory. In "What Remains", an East German writer who is under observation by the secret police traces the way in which this almost constant surveillance gradually destroys every shred of normalcy in her life. In "Exchanging Glances", a woman remembers, from a far distance in time, place, and politics, the flight of her family from the advancing Russian Army during World War II. And in the biting and very funny satire "The New Life and Opinions of a Tomcat", we meet Max the cat, the devoted pet of a professor of applied psychology who is working on the realization of TOHUHA (Total Human Happiness), or the abolition of tragedy. What Remains offers a fascinating introduction to Wolf's work.
Notes: Translation of: Gesammelte Erzählungen.
Table of contents: title: Exchanging glances --; title: Tuesday, September 27 --; title: June afternoon --; title: Unter den Linden --; title: The new life and opinions of a tomcat --; title: A little outing to H. --; title: Self-experiment --; title: What remains.