The Washington Post, April 1st, 1990
THE WALL opened and the taboo of the written word fell. Suddenly, East Germans would be able to read the West Germans they had long watched on talk shows, the foreigners they had seen accepting Nobel Prizes, and even their exiled countrymen, whose welcome in the West was beamed back home by West German television. Not so fast. Just when East German publishers are finally permitted to publish the works of the world's great exiled authors, as well as their own dissident writers, the collapse of their economy has provided a new reason to leave readers dissatisfied. Before November, it was the Com...
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