Herta Müller

Bettina Brandt taught at MIT, Columbia University, and Montclair State before joining the faculty at Pennsylvania State University. She has published on contemporary women writers such as Emine Özdamar and Yoko Tawada. Valentina Glajar is a professor of German at Texas State University, San Marcos. She is the coauthor of several books, including Local History, Transnational Memory in the Romanian Holocaust, and is the cotranslator of MÜller’s Traveling on One Leg.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Bettina Brandt and Valentina Glajar Part 1. Life, Writing, and Betrayal 1. Herta Muller: Writing and Betrayal Allan Stoekl 2. Nobel Lecture: Every Word Knows Something of a Vicious Circle Herta Muller 3. Collage Poems Herta Muller 4. Interview with Ernest Wichner Valentina Glajar and Bettina Brandt Part 2. Totalitarianism, Autofiction, Memory 5. When Dictatorships Fail to Deprive of Dignity: Herta Muller's "Romanian" Period Cristina Petrescu 6. "Die akute Einsamkeit des Menschen": Herta Muller's Herztier Brigid Haines 7. Facts, Fiction, Autofiction, and Surfiction in Herta Muller's Work Paola Bozzi 8. From Fact to Fiction: Herta Muller's Atemschaukel Olivia Spiridon Part 3. Muller's Aesthetics of Experimentation 9. "Wir konnen hochstens mit dem, was wir sehen, etwas zusammenstellen": Herta Muller's Collages Beverley Driver Eddy 10. In Transit: Transnational Trajectories and Mobility in Herta Muller's Recent Writings Monika Moyrer 11. Osmoses: Muller's Things, Bodies, and Spaces Anja Johannsen 12. Herta Muller's Art of Reverberation: Sound in the Collage Books Die blassen Herren mit den Mokkatassen and Este sau nu este Ion Arina Rotaru 13. Accumulating Histories: Temporality in Herta Muller's "Einmal anfassen--zweimal loslassen" Katrina Nousek Selected Bibliography Contributors Index