Exit by Richard Wagner
The monstrously repressive world of Ceausescu's Romania provides the setting and the subject of Richard Wagner's extraordinary narrative, written shortly before the Christmas revolution. Stirner, the main protagonist, is an ethnic German, and lives in Timisoara, the town which was to be the revolution's birthplace. He works as a journalist - a meaningless job, since the Party is the only source of news or comment and no one reads the papers. His wife teaches German, but German lessons, like many things, are 'dispensable', and may even be subversive. Her vocabulary classes - which include words like 'salt', 'duck' and 'apricot' - have been reported to the Securitate. Finally, facing nothing but 'the next humiliation and the one after that', Stirner and his wife apply for an exit-visa. In fine, stark prose and with the scrupulous detail of the best documentarists, Richard Wagner has recorded the absurdities, the betrayals and the claustrophobia of daily life in one of Europe's last dictatorships. Richard Wagner returned to Timisoara to write a preface to this edition, in which he reflects on how far life has changed since the revolution.
Richard Wagner was born near Timisoara in 1952. He was a member of the 'Aktionsgruppe Banat', which sought to provide a critique of the Ceausescu regime from the left, until it was broken up by the Securitate. He emigrated to West Germany in 1987 and now lives in Berlin. He has published a volume of poetry, a children's book, and a second novel, Begreissungsgeld.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780860915102 |
| ISBN 10 | 0860915107 |
| Titel | Exit |
| Autor | Richard Wagner |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Verso Books |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 1990-04-01 |
| Seitenanzahl | 134 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
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