Widely regarded as Muller’s best novel, The Land of Green Plums is a beautifully written and unflinching portrayal of life under the totalitarian regime of Ceausescu’s Romania.

Irene is a fragile woman born to a German family in Romania, who has recently emigrated from her native country to West Germany. Politically and socially isolated, Irene moves within…

After being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2009, Herta Muller attained great prominence around the world. Commentators, especially in English-speaking countries, seemed shocked by the decision. One of…

Juxtaposing reality and fantasy, nightmares and dark laughter, this title presents a collection of largely autobiographical stories based on Herta Muller’s childhood in the Romanian countryside.

Compares three contemporary women writing in German: Herta Muller (from Romania), Libuse Monikova (from Czechoslovakia), and Kerstin Hensel (from the GDR). Drawing on psychoanlytical, feminist, and performativity theory, this book…

Translation of: Der Fuchs war damals schon der Jeager.

Karl Kraus entwickelte 1930 die Idee, das OEuvre eines zeitgenoessischen deutschen Literaturnobelpreistragers sprachkritisch zu untersuchen und zu fragen, ob es die Auszeichnung rechtfertige. Sprachkritik hiess in seiner Sicht nicht in…