Cristina und ihre Attrappe oder Was (nicht) in den Akten der Securitate steht

by Herta Müller

Simon Schama in defence of the essay in the age of Twitter writes: 'The self-propulsion of a ranging intelligence is the dynamo that drives a powerful essay; the headlong gallop of thought to a destination the reader can't predict and which may not have occurred to the writer when he began.' And that power, that propulsion, that surprise is evident in every one of this selection of the very finest of the essays produced over the past 20 years by the Nobel laureate Romanian-German writer Herta Muller. She interrogates Communist society, especially in its bizarre Romanian Ceaucescu variation,...