HERTA MÜLLER  AND THE MAGIC MEMORY OF THE VILLAGE Cover Image

Memoria magică a satului la Herta Müller
HERTA MÜLLER AND THE MAGIC MEMORY OF THE VILLAGE

Author(s): Rusu Petriana
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Foreign languages learning
Published by: Editura Aeternitas
Keywords: childhood imagination; childhood magic; rural; communist realities; superstitions;

Summary/Abstract: The difficult conditions berared by Herta Müller in her childhood in the native village, during the communist times, the absence of communication with her family and a continuous lack of affection coming from the maternal figures in the house, left a deep mark on the later life of the Nobel awarded writer. Discussing the world of her childhood with the journalist Angelika Klammer, Herta Müller shows that, in those times, in order to compensate the reality, she created a magic world of her own. This world operated on three coordinates: the relation with nature, the relation with the divinity and the interpretation of death, as presented in our article.

  • Issue Year: 1/2019
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 59-65
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Romanian