The Modern Language Review, January 1st, 2001
Anna Seghers in Perspective. Ed. by IAN WALLACE. (German Monitor, 43) Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi. 1998. 212 pp. $61 (paperbound $19).
The reputation of Anna Seghers has taken something of a knock since the publication of Walter Janka's Schwierigkeiten mit der Wahrheit in 1989, with its suggestion that Seghers did little to defend Janka when he became the victim of a show trial in July 1957. Hers is not the only reputation to suffer since the Wende. Christa Wolf 's belated publication of an account relating her experience as the victim of Stasi surveillance (Was bleibt), as well as di...
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