Christa Wolf is one of the most prominent postwar German writers. Her works were read and discussed widely in both Germanies prior to reunification in 1990. The intense interest in her works continues unabated as her reputation spreads beyond the...

Christa Wolf is one of the most prominent postwar German writers. Her works are read and discussed widely in both Germanies, and her reputation is spreading rapidly beyond the German-speaking countries. In addition to her fiction, Wolf has done...

The East German writer Anna Seghers had considerable influence on a younger writer from the same country, Christa Wolf. Wolf shared Seghers' views of the purpose of literature as a document of human efforts at self-realization and of writing as a useful tool to...

Gail Finney. Christa Wolf. New York. Twayne. 1999. xiv + 143 pages. $32. isbn 0-8057-4622-6. Gail Finney's contribution to the Twayne World Authors Series admirably provides the concise critical introduction, interpretation, and discussion of an individual author's work that is the...

In the following essay, Voris examines the construction of female self-identity and aspects of alienation in The Quest for Christa T., drawing attention to the representation of women as creative agents—both biologically and intellectually—and the narrative's appropriation of bildungsroman literary conventions.

In the following essay, Sayre and Löwy discuss the connections between nineteenth-century Romanticism and Wolf's feminist and anti-capitalist perspective.

In the following essay, Postl examines Wolf's attempt to reconcile socialist ideals with Western-style postmodern feminist concerns.