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90sinds 20 apr. '25, 22:01
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ConditieZo goed als nieuw
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AuteurChrista Wolf
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Christa Wolf, Divided Heaven. Berlin-Wall-torn love story
€ 3,95
Christa Wolf, Divided Heaven (they divided the sky).
Uit het duits, Der geteilte Himmel, in het Engels vertaald.
Vlak voor de Berlijnse muur in 1961 werd gebouwd.
In those last August days of the year 1961 the girl called Rita Seidel awoke in a small hospital room. She had not been asleep, she'd been unconscious. As she opens her eyes it is evening and the clean white wall, the thing she sees first, is in shadow. This is the first time she has ever been here, but she knows immediately what happened to her, today and before.
Two lovers who are coming apart will finally be separated by the wall. Manfred, a chemist with great ambitions, sees no perspective for himself in the communist German Democratic Republic (GDR) and settles in the west. He becomes an East German refugee. Rita, a student 10 years younger than her teacher, tries in vain just a few days before the wall is built to bring him back. Convinced of the politics of the GDR, she does not follow him but stays in East Germany. A love story that captures contemporary history as the story opens, there is talk of the august days of the year 1961. With that, the story's timing and its political context is established, even if not explicitly named.
The lovers at the center of the story are forever divided in this country, whose division was later visible and carried out with unequivocal hardness. The heaven or sky of the book's title becomes a symbol of this division of the two German states into east and west.
At their last meeting, Rita and Manfred search one last romantic fixture, a firmament of their lost love, which does not withstand this division. In the past, lovers who had to separate would look for a star where their gaze might meet in the evenings. "what can we look for?" At least they can't divide the sky" Manfred said in a mocking tone. "the sky? This enormous vault of hope and yearning, love and sorrow?"
"Yes, they can", she said, "the sky is what divides first of all"
€ 3,95
Christa Wolf, Divided Heaven (they divided the sky).
Uit het duits, Der geteilte Himmel, in het Engels vertaald.
Vlak voor de Berlijnse muur in 1961 werd gebouwd.
In those last August days of the year 1961 the girl called Rita Seidel awoke in a small hospital room. She had not been asleep, she'd been unconscious. As she opens her eyes it is evening and the clean white wall, the thing she sees first, is in shadow. This is the first time she has ever been here, but she knows immediately what happened to her, today and before.
Two lovers who are coming apart will finally be separated by the wall. Manfred, a chemist with great ambitions, sees no perspective for himself in the communist German Democratic Republic (GDR) and settles in the west. He becomes an East German refugee. Rita, a student 10 years younger than her teacher, tries in vain just a few days before the wall is built to bring him back. Convinced of the politics of the GDR, she does not follow him but stays in East Germany. A love story that captures contemporary history as the story opens, there is talk of the august days of the year 1961. With that, the story's timing and its political context is established, even if not explicitly named.
The lovers at the center of the story are forever divided in this country, whose division was later visible and carried out with unequivocal hardness. The heaven or sky of the book's title becomes a symbol of this division of the two German states into east and west.
At their last meeting, Rita and Manfred search one last romantic fixture, a firmament of their lost love, which does not withstand this division. In the past, lovers who had to separate would look for a star where their gaze might meet in the evenings. "what can we look for?" At least they can't divide the sky" Manfred said in a mocking tone. "the sky? This enormous vault of hope and yearning, love and sorrow?"
"Yes, they can", she said, "the sky is what divides first of all"
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