Vater telefoniert mit den Fliegen
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| Author | Herta Müller |
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| Language | German |
| Genre | Poetry, collage |
| Publisher | Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich |
Publication date | August 2012 |
| Pages | 192 |
| ISBN | 978-3-446-23857-2 |
Vater telefoniert mit den Fliegen (Father's on the Phone with the Flies) is a collection of collage poems by Nobel Prize-winning writer Herta Müller first published in 2012.[1] The 191 collages are divided between five sections.[2] As with most of Müller's work, one of the collection's underlying themes is political, stemming from her experience living under the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu in Communist Romania.[3]
A selection of 73 of the poems was published in English in 2018, translated by Thomas Cooper, alongside the German originals.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Herta Müllers "Vater telefoniert mit den Fliegen"". Focus (in German). 31 August 2012. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
- ^ Ottschofski, Edith (23 September 2012). "Vom "Herzkran" und der "Heimat zum Quadrat"". Siebenbürgischer Zeitung. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
- ^ "Ein Telefonat mit den Fliegen". Frankfurter Neue Presse. 12 October 2012. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
- ^ "Father's on the phone with the flies: a selection". University of Alberta Libraries. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
Further reading
[edit]- Dunker, Axel (21 August 2017). "9. Collagen" [Collages]. In Eke, Norbert Otto (ed.). Herta Müller-Handbuch (in German). J.B. Metzler. pp. 71–78. ISBN 978-3-476-05401-2.
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