Vater telefoniert mit den Fliegen

Vater telefoniert mit den Fliegen (Father's on the Phone with the Flies) is a collection of collage poems by Nobel Prize-winning writer Herta Müller first published in 2012.[1] The 191 collages are divided between five sections.[2] As with most of Müller's work, one of the collection's underlying themes is political, stemming from her experience living under the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu in Communist Romania.[3]

Vater telefoniert mit den Fliegen
first edition
AuthorHerta Müller
LanguageGerman
GenrePoetry, collage
PublisherCarl Hanser Verlag, Munich
Publication date
August 2012
Pages192
ISBN978-3-446-23857-2

A selection of 73 of the poems was published in English in 2018, translated by Thomas Cooper, alongside the German originals.[4]

References edit

  1. ^ "Herta Müllers "Vater telefoniert mit den Fliegen"". Focus (in German). 31 August 2012. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
  2. ^ Ottschofski, Edith (23 September 2012). "Vom "Herzkran" und der "Heimat zum Quadrat"". Siebenbürgischer Zeitung. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
  3. ^ "Ein Telefonat mit den Fliegen". Frankfurter Neue Presse. 12 October 2012. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
  4. ^ "Father's on the phone with the flies: a selection". University of Alberta Libraries. Retrieved 23 July 2018.

Further reading edit

  • Dunker, Axel (21 August 2017). "9. Collagen" [Collages]. In Eke, Norbert Otto (ed.). Herta Müller-Handbuch (in German). J.B. Metzler. pp. 71–78. ISBN 978-3-476-05401-2.