HERTA MÜLLER, UN NOU NUME AL LITERATURII UNIVERSALE
HERTA MULLER, THE NEW NAME IN THE WORLD LITERATURE

Summary/Abstract: Herta Muller won the Nobel Prize for Literature for 2009. She is a German born in Romania. News about the new world-renowned writer flashed like a bolt of lightning. Herta Muller’s poetry and prose are not translated enough especially into English language, so the first commentary in the overseas countries such as Canada and USA was: Herta .. .who . . ? For Romanian publishers, the opus of Herta Muller is not unknown. Yet she was just a minority who found her peace in her mother country. Romanian publishers, those who cherish anti-communist vision of a culture, published six books of hers. However, all these books were considered, until the Nobel committee, a mediocre literature sold for five times lower prize than its real value. Then after one night, the literature of Herta Muller became a best-seller. We emphasized on purpose that the new Nobel Prize Winner is a minority, because precisely this differs her from other winners. On the way from her birth town Nickidorf near Timisoara to the world-known writer, Herta Muller had to beat two intellectual elites. Every minority has to fight against two majorities on his way to becoming famous. The first elite or majority are the intellectuals, where a person is born as a member of minority. The second elite are the intellectuals from his mother country who consider Diaspora not to be the carrier of the national values and ideas. However, through writing she speaks from her soul, judges, defends and seeks explanation for the evil in people. Because of that, she became interesting to jury and to vast majority of people.

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