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<p>Herta Müller has written several volumes of postcards, describing the work on the collages as a “relaxation exercise” from the laborious epic work. Her collage work is heterogeneous, works with the principle of chance, deals with clippings. The author tries o writing with scissors that can be positioned somewhere between literature and the fine arts. The volume <italic>Father Telephones with the Flies</italic> enables a political reading in which an I speaks about his traumas during the dictatorship, about interrogations, shadows and also includes the family sphere. Image and writing complement each other.</p>
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Herta Müller has written several volumes of postcards, describing the work on the collages as a “relaxation exercise” from the laborious epic work. Her collage work is heterogeneous, works with the principle of chance, deals with clippings. The author tries o writing with scissors that can be positioned somewhere between literature and the fine arts. The volume Father Telephones with the Flies enables a political reading in which an I speaks about his traumas during the dictatorship, about interrogations, shadows and also includes the family sphere. Image and writing complement each other.

Schreiben mit der Schere: Herta Müllers Collagenband <italic>Vater telefoniert mit den Fliegen</italic>

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Schreiben mit der Schere: Herta Müllers Collagenband 

Herta Müller has written several volumes of postcards, describing the work on the collages as a “relaxation exercise” from the laborious epic work. Her collage...

Schreiben mit der Schere: Herta Müllers Collagenband Vater telefoniert mit den Fliegen

Published Online: Dec 30, 2021

Page range: 50 - 66

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/gb-2021-0004

Keywords
Collages, hazard, political reading, dictatorship, interrogations, association between images and writing

© 2021 Grazziella Predoiu Temeswar, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Schreiben mit der Schere: Herta Müllers Collagenband Vater telefoniert mit den Fliegen

Published Online: Dec 30, 2021

Page range: 50 - 66

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/gb-2021-0004

KeywordsCollages, hazard, political reading, dictatorship, interrogations, association between images and writing

© 2021 Grazziella Predoiu Temeswar, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Collages, hazard, political reading, dictatorship, interrogations, association between images and writing