The Quest for Christa T.

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The Quest for Christa T.
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cover of first edition
AuthorChrista Wolf
Original titleNachdenken über Christa T.
TranslatorChristopher Middleton
CountryEast Germany East Germany
LanguageGerman
Genrenovel
PublisherMitteldeutschen Verlag, Halle
Publication date
1968
Published in English
1971
Media typePrint (Hardcover & Paperback)
LC ClassPT2685.O36 N3

The Quest for Christa T. (Nachdenken über Christa T.) is a 1968 novel by German writer Christa Wolf that follows two childhood friends from the second World War into the 1960s in East Germany. Stylistically it demonstrates a subjectivist experimentation in prose characteristic of GDR literature of the 1960s.[1] According to the 2013 exhibition "David Bowie Is," the novel was one of David Bowie's 100 favourite books.[2]

Plot[]

An unnamed narrator first meets Krischan when they are school children during the end of World War II. With the end of the war they are both displaced but reunite again as young women, when they are both taking university courses.

References[]

  1. ^ Bathrick, David (1995). The Powers of Speech: The Politics of Culture in the GDR. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. p. 92.
  2. ^ Jones, Josh. "David Bowie's Top 100 Books". Open Culture. Retrieved 14 September 2014.


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