Christa Wolf has died

[Stiffelio]

Christa Wolf, perhaps one of the greatest German writers of the second half of the twentieth century has died. She was 82.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/books-obituaries/8929252/Christa-Wolf.html


I read very little by her, the moving Sommerstück, but had Kassandra and Medea on my TBR list.

[lenz]

It is sad to hear of the death of a person so committed to an ideology and, at the same time, so willing to question the authority of it's national leaders. I read Kassandra a long time ago and felt that it was really the final word on why the human species (the male gender in particular) turns so easily to war as a solution and why it must stop doing that. The Cassandra myth or legend is always relevant because she has never died--she just keeps on prophesying destruction and still is not believed.

[Daniel del Real]

Sad news, and a peculiar timing as it happened the week in which Germany was the guest country in the Guadalajara Book Fair. Curiously I didn't hear anything from the Germans during the week which leads me to think she doesn't have the important role she deserves in German literature. Hope I'm wrong about it.