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The New Yorker: "This remarkable book offers insight into the mind behind the public figure, collecting accounts that Wolf has written over forty years describing her life on each September 27th as precisely as possible."

Date: Mar 28 2007

Few writing careers have been as public as that of Wolf, East Germany’s most famous writer; she was both a loyal supporter of her country and a fervent critic (watched by the Stasi and also, for a brief period early in her career, informing for it), and then became a bitter opponent of German reunification. This remarkable book offers insight into the mind behind the public figure, collecting accounts that Wolf has written over forty years describing her life on each September 27th as precisely as possible. She has noted that utopian impulses can arise “out of everyday experience rather than out of theory,” and here, as the years pass and the same events recur—buying a present for a daughter whose birthday is the next day, meeting friends for dinner—we get an intimate sense of the impact of one sphere on the other. We also follow Wolf’s growing disenchantment, first with what she sees as the lost promise of the German Democratic Republic, then with “today’s utopia-free situation.

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