117 pages
German language
Published 1987 by Aufbau-Verlag.
Christa Wolf: Störfall (German language, 1987, Aufbau-Verlag)
117 pages
German language
Published 1987 by Aufbau-Verlag.
An East German writer, awaiting a call from the hospital where her brother is undergoing brain surgery, instead receives news of a massive nuclear accident at Chernobyl, one thousand miles away. In the space of a single day, in a potent, lyrical stream of thought, the narrator confronts both mortality and life and above all, the import of each moment lived-open, as Wolf reveals, to infinite analysis.