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Canox	Posted: Oct 8 2009, 09:16 AM
bleh Group: Members Posts: 2,823 Member No.: 2,508 Joined: 13-July 08	http://shigekuni.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/...-muller-part-1/

suzannahhh	Posted: Oct 8 2009, 12:44 PM
Forum junkie Group: Members Posts: 8,039 Member No.: 9 Joined: 20-November 06	http://www.signandsight.com/features/1925.html long excerpt from her latest, English'd

Canox	Posted: Oct 9 2009, 08:36 AM
bleh Group: Members Posts: 2,823 Member No.: 2,508 Joined: 13-July 08	Here is the full article. I decided to rewroite and enlarge the original one instead of speratately writing 'part 2'. http://shigekuni.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/...l-prize-winner/

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Posted: Oct 9 2009, 12:16 PM

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QUOTE (Canox @ Oct 9 2009, 09:36 AM)

Here is the full article. I decided to rewroite and enlarge the original one instead of speratately writing 'part 2'.
http://shigekuni.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/...l-prize-winner/

cool essay...

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Violence, in turn, is connected to fear and darkness and the progression of her work could be read as an attempt to climb out of it, but it shouldn’t. She herself has said that writing doesn’t help or mitigate the darkness. Instead, her work is the work of a teacher. Writers like Jelinek have been suspicious of teaching, as it can be said to reproduce and execute power inequalities and similar issues, but Müller doesn’t share these misgivings. Like Grass’ oeuvre, Müller’s work is a continuation of traditional storytelling. She, too, is aware of the structure of myth and folk tales but her use of them is constructive. She uses tradition as a tool in constructing and building a story. Memory is important, so are intercultural connections. In this she is, if anything, the antithesis to Jelinek. She teaches us to remember, to look not for repression in words (although we are reminded of its presence) but for the past. The eponymous Herztier (’Heart Animal’) can be read as a mythical figure in the tradition of Gershom Scholem’s, a mythical symbol of the hidden life, a conflation of the individual (Herz) and the collective (Tier).

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Posted: Oct 10 2009, 08:31 PM

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QUOTE (kline19 @ Oct 9 2009, 06:16 PM)

cool essay...

thanks man.

suzannahhh	Posted: Oct 17 2009, 12:09 PM
Forum junkie Group: Members Posts: 8,039 Member No.: 9 Joined: 20-November 06	excellent article about her personal history and her writings http://www.signandsight.com/features/1944.html

Canox	Posted: Nov 1 2009, 07:15 PM
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