Durs Grünbein's The Bars of Atlantis - Words Without Borders
Durs Grünbein’s The Bars of Atlantis Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010 Despite its brief history, East Germany held potent sway over the Western imagination Despite its brief history, East Germany held potent sway over the Western imagination; “athletes, spies and writers were three things they seemed worryingly good at producing” as Michael Hofmann put it. Escape artists also belong on that list. Thanks to the steady stream of emigration, the GDR had lost over three million citizens by 1991. In retaliation, the Eastern authorities radically altered their half of Berlin until it was virt...
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