Eine warme Kartoffel ist ein warmes Bett (A Warm Potato is a Warm Bed) is a collection of essays by Nobel Prize-winning author Herta Müller, first published in 1992.[1] The essays were previously published as columns in the monthly Swiss publication Du between 1990 and 1992.[2][3]
 First edition | |
| Author | Herta Müller |
|---|---|
| Language | German |
| Genre | Essay collection |
| Publisher | Europäische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg |
Publication date | 1992 |
| Pages | 77 |
| ISBN | 978-3-434-50014-8 |
The title comes from one of the cryptic phrases that Müller's mother used in discussing the gulags of the Socialist Republic of Romania. The title essay, written in 1991, was later expanded into a 304-page prose poem called Atemschaukel (The Hunger Angel).[4]
References edit
- ^ Eke, N.O. (2017). Herta Müller-Handbuch (in German). J.B. Metzler. p. 59. ISBN 978-3-476-05401-2. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
- ^ Eine warme Kartoffel ist ein warmes Bett. Stanford Libraries. 1992. ISBN 9783434500148. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - ^ Rock, David; Wolff, Stefan (2002). Coming Home to Germany?: The Integration of Ethnic Germans from Central and Eastern Europe in the Federal Republic. Berghahn Books. p. 186. ISBN 978-1-57181-729-7.
- ^ Haines, Brigid; Marven, Lyn (20 June 2013). Herta Müller. Oxford University Press. pp. 124–126. ISBN 978-0-19-166959-0. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
Further reading edit
- Vezzoli, Silvia (2016). "Herta Müller: una poetica del Denkbild?". DRADEK (in Italian). 2 (2): 513–534.
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