Writing without Taboos

J. H. Reid is a Reader in German at the University of Nottingham.

'This is an essential work for all students of East German literature. It has been written with such care that the events of 1989 do not make it appear outdated ... Reid's range is considerable, his analyses sound, his knowledge of the general background and of the secondary literature is excellent.' Times Higher Education Supplement

• Congruence and divergence; writers, politicians and taboos; beyond formalism; difficulties across the plain; how did we become as we are; Stalinism past and present; Prussians, Saxons and others; en route to Utopia.