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Bezig met laden... De gedeelde hemel (1963)door Christa Wolf
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Een jonge vrouw die lerares wil worden werkt geheel in lijn met de communistische ideologie eerst enige tijd in een fabriek voor machinebouw. Haar verloofde, een cynische chemicus, heeft weinig op met de hooggestemde arbeidersidealen. Op haar werk heerst veel spanning en intrige. Ze krijgt de kans naar het Westen te vluchten waar haar verloofde op haar wacht maar besluit terug te keren naar de DDR. Ten prooi aan liefdesverdriet en vervreemding doet zij een poging tot zelfmoord, belandt in een sanatorium, herstelt hier tenslotte en omarmt, ondanks alles, opnieuw het leven. Der geteilte Himmel is a very early work — only Wolf's second novel to be published, in 1963 — and is set in an industrial city in East Germany in the period immediately before the building of the Berlin Wall. Superficially, it could be read as a simple propaganda story: a young woman's loyalty to the Workers' and Peasants' State helps her overcome the temptation to follow her bourgeois fiancé into the West. But of course, it's a lot more complicated and rewarding than that. Wolf draws on her experience of a period she and her husband spent working in a railway carriage works to show us what the socialist state looks like in practice for industrial workers, students and academics, and explains how the realities of personal ambition, bullying, weakness — and above all, the dangerously recent legacy of the Nazi period — make it difficult to achieve its ideals. With hindsight, it's easy to see what's missing from the picture: her version of the DDR may have its fair share of pollution, inefficiencies, pettiness, and incompetence, but its policemen confine their efforts to directing traffic, there don't appear to be any prisons or censorship, and the existence of the Stasi is only very indirectly hinted at. When things go wrong, they are resolved by workers' meetings and self-criticism, not by the forcible intervention of state agencies. And of course we wouldn't really expect anything else. Not only would it have been difficult and dangerous to speak out about state terror, but it would probably also have been redundant: none of her readers in East or West would have been under any illusions in that respect. Certainly not in 1963. The question she is trying to answer is not why around 20% of the population of the DDR chose to leave before the 13th of August 1961, but rather why 80% chose to stay. And she wants us to see that it's a complicated question that goes beyond simplistic ideas about native soil, economics, or abstract loyalty to a political ideal. Her central character, Rita, is someone who was born outside the DDR and fled there at the end of the war (like Wolf herself); she lives in an unattractive industrial city where she has no family ties, and she's not a fanatical communist. She is well aware of the problems in the running of the factory where she works and the institute where she studies; she sees good people being frustrated in their ambitions and bad ones profiting. Moreover, she feels for a long time that her love for Manfred is the most important thing that's ever happened to her. But nonetheless, she feels a loyalty to the common project of building a better world that she shares with her co-workers and fellow students, and she sees how she is losing Manfred to his all-consuming hatred for his fellow-travelling ex-Nazi father and his scheming bourgeois mother. In the end, it is the loyalty to her friends that wins, as we know from the start of the book, but it's not an easy decision. And it's probably no coincidence that she takes that decision on the Sunday before the Wall went up... Sono passati più di 30 anni da quando "Il cielo diviso" è stato pubblicato per la prima volta in Germania. In questo arco di tempo il Muro di Berlino è stato abbattuto. Eppure la storia d'amore di Rita e Manfred, storia cresciuta e naufragata all'ombra di quel Muro e dei grandi eventi storici e esso collegato, non ha perso neanche un briciolo della sua forza emotiva e metaforica. I due giovani sono ancora lì, sotto gli occhi del lettore, nel momento in cui si uniscono in un innocente progetto di vita comune e poi, nemmeno due anni dopo, quando questo stesso amore si spezza sotto l'arida pressione della Storia. Allora le differenze ideali e di temperamento dei due prevalgono e le loro strade si separano. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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First published in 1963, in East Germany, They Divided the Sky tells the story of a young couple, living in the new, socialist, East Germany, whose relationship is tested to the extreme not only because of the political positions they gradually develop but, very concretely, by the Berlin Wall, which went up on August 13, 1961. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)833.914Literature German literature and literatures of related languages German fiction Modern period (1900-) 1900-1990 1945-1990LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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Qui è la DDR dei primi anni '60.
Noi sono Manfred e Rita.
Le cose di tutti i giorni sono i piani, le direttive del partito, il lavoro in fabbrica, la Storia, la condizione dell'uomo, la felicità, la famiglia e, in fine, l'amore. Che da solo non basta.
In poche parole: Amore, e tanto altro, senza troppe menate melense. ( )